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TWiEVO 81: Evolution’s new and improved slime molds

  • August 24, 2022
  • Tagged as: Dictyostelium, evolution, gene duplication, mutation, natural selection, neofunctionality, slime mold

Nels and Vincent discuss how duplication of a gene encoding a transcription factor led to evolution of a novel cell type in the slime mold Dictyostelium.

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