Choice of Partners: Sexual Cell Interactions in Dictyostelium discoideum.
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Choice of partners: sexual cell interactions in Dictyostelium discoideum.
Recognition of mating partners is of central importance in the sexual processes. In consideration that the most important function of sexuality is to shuffle genetic materials to generate wider variation of characters, mating among different genetic backgrounds is preferable. Wild isolates of cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum are predominantly heterothallic, but homothallic ones also...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cell Structure and Function
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0386-7196,1347-3700
DOI: 10.1247/csf.21.231