The cooperative amoeba: Dictyostelium as a model for social evolution

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 48-54

  Li, Si I ^a   Purugganan, Michael D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COOPERATION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL COMMUNICATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 79151472878     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2010.11.003     Document Type: Review

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