Precarious development: The uncertain social life of cellular slime molds

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2639-2640

  Rainey, Paul B ^a,b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR SLIME MOLD; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENOTYPE; LIFE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOULD; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAN SPORE;

ACRASIDA;

DICTYOSTELIUM; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

EID: 84924134212     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500708112     Document Type: Note

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