High relatedness maintains multicellular cooperation in a social amoeba by controlling cheater mutants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 8913-8917

  Gilbert, Owen M ^a   Foster, Kevin R ^a,b   Mehdiabadi, Natasha J ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^a   Queller, David C ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Cellular slime molds; Conflict; Dictyostelium discoideum; Kin selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EVOLUTION; KIN SELECTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; ANIMAL; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ACRASIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; F BOX PROTEIN; FBXA PROTEIN, DICTYOSTELIUM; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; F-BOX PROTEINS; MUTANT CHIMERIC PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 34250713549     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702723104     Document Type: Article

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