Ameobas: Keeping it in the family
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 06:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Starving "social amoebae" called Dictyostelium discoideum seek the support of "kin" when they form multi-cellular organisms made up of dead stalks and living spores, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston in a report that appears online today in the open-access journal Public Library of Science Biology.