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PLOIDAL composition is a clonally inherited property in D. discoideum1. Three types of strains exist: stable haploid, stable diploid, and metastable. In the last, each clone contains appreciable proportions of haploid and diploid cells indicating a rate of interconversion substantially higher than in the first two types. Each of these ploidal varieties can be isolated from the others2.
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SUSSMAN, M. Isolation of Diploid Strains of Dictyostelium discoideum from Haploid Populations. Nature 201, 216 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201216a0
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