Single-gene greenbeard effects in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5603, 2003, Pages 105-106

  Queller, David C ^a   Ponte, Eleonora ^b   Bozzaro, Salvatore ^b   Strassmann, Joan E ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; GENES; PROTEINS;

GENE ENCODING;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ALTRUISM; GENE;

ALLELE; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL ADHESION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ETHOLOGY; GENETIC CODE; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL COMMUNICATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MUTATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 0347997283     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1077742     Document Type: Article

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