How social evolution theory impacts our understanding of development in the social amoeba Dictyostelium

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 597-607

  Strassmann, Joan E ^a   Queller, David C ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimera; Genetic relatedness; Kin discrimination; Kin selection; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION INDUCING FACTOR; GLUCOSE;

CELL AGGREGATION; CELL TYPE; CHIMERA; CSAA GENE; DICTYOSTELIUM; DIMA GENE; FRUITING BODY; GENE; KIN SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; TGRB GEBE; TGRC GENE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENES, PROTOZOAN; SELECTION, GENETIC;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 79956134775     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2011.01272.x     Document Type: Review

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