Protein Tails Determine Compatibility Between 'Slime Mold' Mates (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Protein Tails Determine Compatibility Between 'Slime Mold' Mates (1 of 4)

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Timelapse GIF of a giant cell attracting amoebae to aggregate around it. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 1, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Hedgethorne at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues was titled, 'Homeodomain-like DNA binding proteins control the haploid-to-diploid transition in Dictyostelium.'

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[Credit: Gareth Bloomfield]

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