Model protists articles within Nature Communications

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  12 August 2019 | Open Access

  Robust continuous in vitro culture of the Plasmodium cynomolgi erythrocytic stages

  Present understanding of Plasmodium vivax biology is hampered by its inability to grow in vitro. Here, the authors developed an in vitro culture of its simian counterpart, P. cynomolgi, which shares morphological and phenotypic similarities with P. vivax, initiating a new phase in vivax research.

  • Adeline C. Y. Chua
  • , Jessica Jie Ying Ong
  •  & Pablo Bifani

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  06 July 2015 | Open Access

  The GATA transcription factor GtaC regulates early developmental gene expression dynamics in Dictyostelium

  Development involves dynamic transcriptional changes. By serial ChIP- and RNA-sequencing, here, the authors show that GtaC, a GATA type transcription factor, exhibits temporally distinctive DNA binding and regulation of gene expression concordant with the development in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

  • Balaji Santhanam
  • , Huaqing Cai
  •  & Mariko Katoh-Kurasawa

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  28 May 2015 | Open Access

  Temporal regulation of kin recognition maintains recognition-cue diversity and suppresses cheating

  It is unclear how variation in cues that enable recognition of kin and facilitate cooperation is maintained. Here, the authors show that rare variants of Dictyostelium discoideumare excluded from aggregates when the potential for social cheating is high, but subsequently rejoin the aggregate and produce spores.

  • Hsing-I Ho
  •  & Gad Shaulsky