Cheating does not explain selective differences at high and low relatedness in a social amoeba
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Altruism can be favored by high relatedness among interactants. We tested the effect of relatedness in experimental populations of the social amoeba <it>Dictyostelium discoideum</it>, where altruism occurs in a starvation...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-03-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/76 |