The cooperation of the haves and the have-nots
Kaumudi H Prabhakara, Albert J Bae, Eberhard Bodenschatz
The paper shows that a mixture of cAMP-producing and non-producing cells in Dictyostelium discoideum can aggregate due to cooperative resource sharing, despite each population failing to aggregate alone.
bioRxiv · Dec 15, 2017 · PreprintBiophysics