Elizabeth Ostrowski, University of Houston (IMAGE)

University of Houston

Elizabeth Ostrowski, University of Houston

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Elizabeth Ostrowski, an assistant professor in biology and biochemistry at the University of Houston, led a study on cheating in Dictyostelium discoideum, a species of social amoeba. She and her collaborators found that while cheaters do not take over populations, they also cannot ever fully be removed. The findings are described in a paper appearing June 15 in Current Biology.

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