Ameobas: Keeping it in the family

Starving "social amoebae" called Dictyostelium discoideum seek the support of "kin" when they form multi-cellular organisms made up of dead stalks and living spores, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston in a report that appears online today in the open-access journal Public Library of Science Biology.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news146812243.html">Ameobas: Keeping it in the family</a></p> <p>Starving "social amoebae" called <i>Dictyostelium discoideum </i>seek the support of "kin" when they form multi-cellular organisms made up of dead stalks and living spores, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston in a report that appears online today in the open-access journal <i>Public Library of Science Biology</i>.</p>