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Nature 408, 965-967 (21 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35050087;

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Altruism and social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

The social amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum, is widely used as a simple model organism for multicellular development, but its multicellular fruiting stage is really a society. Most of the time, D.|[nbsp]|discoideum lives as haploid, free-living, amoeboid cells that divide asexually.

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