Ameobas: Keeping it in the family

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 17:56 in Biology & Nature

Starving 'social amoebas' seek the support of genetically similar 'kin' when they form multi-cellular organisms to ensure survival, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston report in a paper published today in the open-access journal PLoS Biology...

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