Lack of Ecological and Life History Context Can Create the Illusion of Social Interactions in Dictyostelium discoideum.
Studies of social microbes often focus on one fitness component (reproductive success within the social complex), with little information about or attention to other stages of the life cycle or the ecological context. This can lead to paradoxical results. The life cycle of the social amoeba Dictyost...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-12-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005246 |