Variation, sex, and social cooperation: Molecular population genetics of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Flowers, Jonathan M ^a   Li, Si I ^a   Stathos, Angela ^a,c   Saxer, Gerda ^b   Ostrowski, Elizabeth A ^b   Queller, David C ^b   Strassmann, Joan E ^b   Purugganan, Michael D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE; CLASSIFICATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMOEBA (GENUS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77957348025     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001013     Document Type: Article

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