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Cheating Slime Mold Gets the Upper Hand (1 of 2)

Caption: A ‘cheater’ mutation (chtB) in Dictyostelium discoideum, a free living slime mould able to co-operate as social organism when food is scarce, allows the cheater strain to exploit its social partner, finds a new study published today in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Credit: Lorenzo A Santorelli, Adam Kuspa, Gad Shaulsky, David C Queller and Joan E Strassmann

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