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SUBMITTER: Hirose S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3142563 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hirose Shigenori S Benabentos Rocio R Ho Hsing-I HI Kuspa Adam A Shaulsky Gad G
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20110623 6041
Free-living cells of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum can aggregate and develop into multicellular fruiting bodies in which many die altruistically as they become stalk cells that support the surviving spores. Dictyostelium cells exhibit kin discrimination--a potential defense against cheaters, which sporulate without contributing to the stalk. Kin discrimination depends on strain relatedness, and the polymorphic genes tgrB1 and tgrC1 are potential components of that mechanism. Here, ...[more]