The costs and benefits of being a chimera

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1507, 2002, Pages 2357-2362

  Foster, Kevin R ^a   Fortunato, Angelo ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^a   Queller, David C ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimera; Dictyostelium discoideum; Evolution of multicellularity; Levels of selection; Reproductive conflict

Indexed keywords

CHIMERA; CLONE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; SLIME MOULD;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPOROGENESIS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GASTROPODA; MYXOGASTRIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33747868302     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2163     Document Type: Article

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