Exploiting new terrain: An advantage to sociality in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 433-437

  Kuzdzal Fick, Jennie J ^a   Foster, Kevin R ^a,b   Queller, David C ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Dictyostelium discoideum; Multicellularity; Social evolution; Sociality

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; MIGRATION; PROTIST; SLUG; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; TERRAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GASTROPODA;

EID: 33847665187     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl102     Document Type: Article

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