Cheating does not explain selective differences at high and low relatedness in a social amoeba

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Saxer, Gerda ^a   Brock, Debra A ^a   Queller, David C ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; BACTERIUM; CLONE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; PROTOZOAN; RELATEDNESS; SOIL BIOTA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION;

EID: 77949445739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-76     Document Type: Article

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