Testing the coordination hypothesis: incompatibilities in the absence of a single-cell bottleneck in an experimentally evolved social amoeba.
I. Jahan, T. J. Scott, J. E. Strassmann, D. C. Queller
The paper tests the coordination hypothesis in Dictyostelium discoideum by mixing evolved clones and measuring developmental traits, finding no evidence of incompatibilities in slug movement but support for incompatibilities between migration and spore production.
bioRxiv · May 12, 2024 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology