Dictyostelium Discoideum: World's Smallest Farmer Gets Cloned And Reveals A Key Mutation
Sunday, August 4, 2013 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
In 2011, a paper revealed that Dictyostelium discoideum, a single-celled organism, picks up edible bacteria, carries them to new locations and harvests them like crops - basically, it is the world's smallest farmer. (Nature 469, 393-396 doi:10.1038/nature09668) read more