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SUBMITTER: Adiba S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9464967 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Adiba Sandrine S Forget Mathieu M De Monte Silvia S
iScience 20220825 9
The social amoeba <i>Dictyostelium discoideum</i> commonly forms chimeric fruiting bodies. Genetic variants that produce a higher proportion of spores are predicted to undercut multicellular organization unless cooperators assort positively. Cell adhesion is considered a primary factor driving such assortment, but evolution of adhesion has not been experimentally connected to changes in social performance. We modified by experimental evolution the efficiency of individual cells in attaching to a ...[more]