Variation, Sex, and Social Cooperation: Molecular Population Genetics of the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

Jonathan M. Flowers; Si I. Li; Angela Stathos; Gerda Saxer; Elizabeth A. Ostrowski; David C. Queller; Joan E. Strassmann; Michael D. Purugganan

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001013

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Variation, Sex, and Social Cooperation: Molecular Population Genetics of the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

Jonathan M. Flowers ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan M. Flowers, Si I. Li, Angela Stathos

Affiliation Department of Biology and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Si I. Li ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan M. Flowers, Si I. Li, Angela Stathos

Affiliation Department of Biology and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Angela Stathos ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan M. Flowers, Si I. Li, Angela Stathos

Current address: Division of Biological Science, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Gerda Saxer,

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Elizabeth A. Ostrowski,

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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David C. Queller,

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Joan E. Strassmann,

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Michael D. Purugganan

* E-mail: mp132@nyu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Variation, Sex, and Social Cooperation: Molecular Population Genetics of the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

Jonathan M. Flowers,
Si I. Li,
Angela Stathos,
Gerda Saxer,
Elizabeth A. Ostrowski,
David C. Queller,
Joan E. Strassmann,
Michael D. Purugganan

Published: July 1, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001013

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