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SUBMITTER: Rossine FW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7081983 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rossine Fernando W FW Martinez-Garcia Ricardo R Sgro Allyson E AE Gregor Thomas T Tarnita Corina E CE
PLoS biology 20200319 3
Loners-individuals out of sync with a coordinated majority-occur frequently in nature. Are loners incidental byproducts of large-scale coordination attempts, or are they part of a mosaic of life-history strategies? Here, we provide empirical evidence of naturally occurring heritable variation in loner behavior in the model social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. We propose that Dictyostelium loners-cells that do not join the multicellular life stage-arise from a dynamic population-partitioning p ...[more]