Co-occurrence in nature of different clones of the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1031-1038

  Fortunato, A ^a,b   Strassmann, J E ^a   Santorelli, L ^a   Queller, D C ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

Chimera; Dictyostelium; Kin selection; Multicellularity; Relatedness; Slime mould

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CELL AGGREGATION; CHIMERA; CLONE CELLS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA PRIMERS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRGINIA;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 0038343636     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.01792.x     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Abbot P, Withgott J, Moran N (2001) Genetic conflict and conditional altruism in social aphid colonies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 98, 12068-12071.
2. Armstrong DP (1984) Why don't cellular slime molds cheat. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 109, 271-283.
3. Barkley DS (1969) Adenosine-3′,5′-phosphate: identification as acrasine in a species of cellular slime mold. Science, 165, 1133-1134.
4. Bonner JT (1967) The Cellular Slime Molds, 2nd edn. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
5. Bourke AFG, Franks NR (1995) Social Evolution in Ants. Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA.
6. Bourke AFG, Ratnieks FLW (1999) Kin conflict over caste determination in social Hymenoptera. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 46, 287-297.
7. Buss LW (1982) Somatic cell parasitism and the evolution of somatic tissue compatibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 79, 5337-5341.
8. Buss LW (1999) Slime molds, ascidians, and the utility of evolutionary theory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 96, 8801-8803.
9. Cavender JC (1980) Cellular slime molds of the southern Appalachians. Mycologia, 72, 55-63.
10. Cavender JC, Raper KB (1965a) The Acrasieae in nature. I. Isolation. American Journal of Botany, 52, 294-296.
11. Cavender JC, Raper KB (1965b) The Acrasieae in nature. II. Forest soil as primary habitat. American Journal of Botany, 52, 297-301.
12. Cavender JC, Raper KB (1965c) The Acrasieae in nature. III. Occurrence and distribution in forests of Eastern, North America. American Journal of Botany, 52, 302-308.
13. Crozier RH, Pamilo P (1996) Evolution of Social Insect Colonies: Sex Allocation and Kin Selection. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
14. DeAngelo MJ, Kish VM, Kolmes SA (1990) Altruism, selfishness, and heterocytosis in cellular slime molds. Ethology, Ecology, Evolution, 2, 439-443.
15. Ennis HL, Dao DN, Pukatzki SU, Kessin RH (2000) Dictyostelium amoebae lacking an F-box protein form spores rather than stalk in chimeras with wild type. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 97, 3292-3297.
16. Foster KR, Fortunato A, Strassman JE, Queller DC (2002) The costs and benefits of being a chimera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 269, 2357-2362.
17. Francis D, Eisenberg R (1993) Genetic structure of a natural population of Dictyostelium discoideum, a cellular slime mold. Molecular Ecology, 2, 385-392.
18. Gadagkar R, Bonner JT (1994) Social insects and social amoebae. Journal of Biosciences, 19, 219-245.
19. Grosberg RK, Strathmann RR (1998) One cell, two cell, red cell, blue cell: the persistence of a unicellular stage in multicellular life histories. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 3, 112-116.
20. Hamilton WD (1964a) The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1-16.
21. Hamilton WD (1964b) The genetical evolution of social behaviour. II. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 17-52.
22. Hamilton WD (1972) Altruism and related phenomena, mainly in the social insects. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 3, 193-232.
23. Hudson RE, Aukema JE, Rispe C, Roze D (2002) Altruism, cheating, and anticheater adaptation in cellular slime molds. American Naturalist, 160, 31-43.
24. Kessin RH (2001) Dictyostelium - Evolution, Cell Biology, and the Development of Multicellularity. Cambridge University Press, Cembridge.
25. Konijn TM, van de Meene JGC, Bonner JT, Barkley DS (1967) The acrasin activity of adenosine-3′,5′-cyclic phosphate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 58, 1152-1154.
26. Kuserk FF, Eisenberg RM, Olsen AM (1977) An examination of the methods for isolating cellular slime molds (Dictyosteliida) from soil samples. Journal of Protozoology, 24, 297-299.
27. Landolt JC, Stephenson SL (1986) Cellular slime molds in forest soils of southwestern Virginia. Mycologia, 78, 500-502.
28. Landolt JC, Stephenson SL (1990) Cellular slime molds in forest soils of West Virginia USA. Mycologia, 82, 114-119.
29. Matsuda H, Harada Y (1990) Evolutionarily stable stalk to spore ratio in cellular slime molds and the law of equalization in net incomes. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 147, 329-344.
30. Maynard Smith J (1989) Evolutionary progress and the levels of selection. In: Evolutionary Progress (ed. Nitecki MH), pp. 219-230. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
31. Maynard Smith J, Szathmáry E (1995)The Major Transitions in Evolution. W.H. Freeman, Oxford.
32. Michod RE (1996) Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of individuality. II. Conflict mediation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 263, 813-822.
33. Michod RE (1997) Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of individuality. I. Multi-level selection of the organism. American Naturalist, 149, 607-645.
34. Moritz RFA, Southwick EE (1992) Bees as Superorganisms: An Evolutionary Reality. Springer Verlag, Berlin.
35. Queller DC (2000) Relatedness and the fraternal major transitions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 355, 1647-1655.
36. Queller DC, Foster KR, Fortunato A, Strassmann JE (in press) Cooperation and conflict in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. In: Social Insects and Sociogenetics (eds Kikuchi T, Kubo T, Higashi S). Hokkaido University Press, Sapporo, Japan.
37. Queller DC, Goodnight KF (1989) Estimating relatedness using genetic markers. Evolution, 43, 258-275.
38. Queller DC, Strassmann JE (1998) Kin selection and social insects. Bioscience, 48, 165-175.
39. Raper KB (1984) The Dictyostelids. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
40. Reeve HK, Keller L (1999) Levels of Selection in Evolution. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ.
41. Seeley TD (1989) The honey bee colony as a superorganism. American Scientist, 77, 546-553.
42. Stephenson SL, Landolt JC (1996) The vertical distribution of dictyostelids and myxomycetes in the soil/litter microhabitat. Nova Hedwigia, 62, 105-117.
43. Stoner D, Weissman I (1996) Somatic and germ cell parasitism in a colonial ascidian: possible role for a highly polymorphic allorecognition system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 93, 15254-15259.
44. Strassmann JE, Zhu Y, Queller DC (2000) Altruism and social cheating in the social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum. Nature, 408, 965-967.
45. Trivers RL, Hare H (1976) Haplodiploidy and the evolution of the social insects. Science, 191, 249-263.
46. Velicer GJ, Kroos L, Lenski RE (1998) Loss of social behaviors by Myxococcus xanthus during evolution in an unstructured habitat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 95, 12376-12380.
47. Wheeler WM (1911) The ant colony as organism. Journal of Morphology, 22, 307-325.
48. Williams J (1997) Prestalk and stalk heterogeneity in Dictyostelium In: Dictyostelium - A Model System for Cell and Developmental Biology (eds Maeda Y, Inouye K, Takeuchi I), pp. 293-304. Universal Academy Press, Tokyo.
49. Wilson DS, Sober E (1989) Reviving the superorganism. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 136, 337-356.