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Evolutionary stability of developmental commitment.
Bio Systems - 1 Oct 2024
Shirokawa Yuka
Abstract excerpt
Evolution of unicellular to multicellular organisms must resolve conflicts in reproductive interests between individual cells and the group. The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is a soil-living eukaryote with facultative sociality. While cells grow in the presence of nutrients, cells aggregate under starvation to form fruiting bodies containing spores and altruistic stalk cells. Once cells socially...
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