Differential gene expression analysis and cytological evidence reveal a sexual stage of an amoeba with multiparental cellular and nuclear fusion

• Yonas I. Tekle ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yonas I. Tekle, Fang Wang

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ytekle@spelman.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2781-2351

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• Fang Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yonas I. Tekle, Fang Wang

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Alireza Heidari,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Alanna Johnson Stewart

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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