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ArticleEvolution letters2025

Testing the coordination hypothesis: incompatibilities in aggregative development of an experimentally evolved social amoeba.

Israt Jahan, Trey J Scott, Joan E Strassmann, David C Queller

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Article in Evolution letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Israt JahanDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2950-1664
Trey J ScottDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Joan E StrassmannDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, United States.
David C QuellerDepartment of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multicellular organisms that form by aggregation of cells arguably do not achieve high levels of complexity. Conflict among the cells is a widely accepted explanation for this, but an alternative hypothesis is that mixing cells of different genotypes leads to failures of coordination, which we call the "coordination hypothesis." We empirically tested the coordination hypothesis in the social amoeba

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aggregative multicellularitycoordinationDictyostelium discoideumexperimental evolutionincompatibilities

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PMID40230370
PMCPMC11995881

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