Survival of the fattest.
other · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24282235.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.01760 and PMC identifier 3840680.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Experiments on the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum show that the origins of lineage bias in this system lie in the nutritional history of individual cells. Clues to the molecular basis for this process suggest similar forces may be at work in early mammalian development.
Medical subject headings
- Dictyostelium
- ras Proteins