Primitive agriculture in a social amoeba

Nature

Volumn 469, Issue 7330, 2011, Pages 393-396

  Brock, Debra A ^a   Douglas, Tracy E ^a   Queller, David C ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; ANT; BACTERIUM; BEETLE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; PROPAGULE; SEED DISPERSAL; SNAIL; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HARVESTING; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS; WILD TYPE;

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DICTYOSTELIUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPORES; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; PLATYPODINI; POMACENTRIDAE;

EID: 78751659611     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09668     Document Type: Article

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