Social amoeba farmers carry defensive symbionts to protect and privatize their crops

Agricultural crops are investments that can be exploited by others. Farmer clones of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum carry bacteria to seed out new food populations but they also carry other non-food bacteria such as Burkholderia spp. Here we demonstrate that these farmer-carried Burkhold...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nature communications 2013, Vol.4 (1), p.2385-2385, Article 2385
Hauptverfasser:	Brock, Debra A., Read, Silven, Bozhchenko, Alona, Queller, David C., Strassmann, Joan E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	631/326/2565/547 631/449/2668 Biological Evolution Burkholderia - isolation & purification Burkholderia - physiology Dictyostelium - microbiology Humanities and Social Sciences Klebsiella pneumoniae - physiology Linear Models multidisciplinary Science Science (multidisciplinary) Spores, Protozoan - physiology Symbiosis - physiology Time Factors
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