A new social gene in Dictyostelium discoideum, chtB

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Santorelli, Lorenzo A ^a,b,d   Kuspa, Adam ^a,b   Shaulsky, Gad ^a,b   Queller, David C ^c   Strassmann, Joan E ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cheating behavior; ChtB; D. discoideum; Pre spore marker; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA (GENUS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAN SPORE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC FITNESS; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872025318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-4     Document Type: Article

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