Collecting Wild Cousins of Model Organism (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Collecting Wild Cousins of Model Organism

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Research scientist Debra Brock collects soil samples that might contain wild D. discoideum clones at the biological field station in Mountain Lake, Va. It turns out that each pinch of soil hosts an ongoing psychodrama that pits farmers and their hired guns against crop thieves.

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