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Lorenzo A. Santorelli
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Open AccessBeehives possess their own distinct microbiomes
Honeybees use plant material to manufacture their own food. These insect pollinators visit flowers repeatedly to collect nectar and pollen, which are shared with other hive bees to produce honey and beebread. ...
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Open AccessA new social gene in Dictyostelium discoideum, chtB
Competitive social interactions are ubiquitous in nature, but their genetic basis is difficult to determine. Much can be learned from single gene knockouts in a eukaryote microbe. The mutants can be competed w...
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Cheater-resistance is not futile
Individual social amoebae such as Dictyostelium must cooperate to build the fruiting bodies through which they reproduce. As with all societies, this process is highly susceptible to cheats who reap the benefits ...
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Facultative cheater mutants reveal the genetic complexity of cooperation in social amoebae
The evolution of cooperation is central to the transition by organisms from unicellular to multicellular states. Mutant cells that 'cheat' by benefiting from the cooperation of others but offering nothing in r...
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Unrelated helpers in a social insect
High-resolution genetic markers have revolutionized our understanding of vertebrate mating systems1, but have so far yielded few comparable surprises about kinship in social insects. Here we use microsatellite ma...
