Cheating is easy -- for the social amoeba

Cheating is easy and seemingly without cost for the social amoeba known as Dictyostelium discoideum, said a team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston who conducted the first genome-scale search for social genes and found more than 100 mutant genes that allow cheating. A report of their work appears in the current issue of the journal Nature.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news122129689.html">Cheating is easy -- for the social amoeba</a></p> <p>Cheating is easy and seemingly without cost for the social amoeba known as Dictyostelium discoideum, said a team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston who conducted the first genome-scale search for social genes and found more than 100 mutant genes that allow cheating. A report of their work appears in the current issue of the journal <i>Nature</i>.</p>