Self-Recognition in Social Amoebae Is Mediated by Allelic Pairs of Tiger Genes

• DOI: 10.1126/science.1203903
• Publication Date: 2011-06-24T03:04:13Z
• Authors: Shigenori Hirose; Rocio Benabentos; Hsing-I Ho; Adam Kuspa; Gad Shaulsky
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; Genes, Protozoan; Molecular Sequence Data; Spores, Protozoan; Protozoan Proteins; 03 medical and health sciences; Cell Adhesion; Dictyostelium; Amino Acid Sequence; Alleles; Gene Deletion; Cell Aggregation; Protein Binding

Polymorphic receptors prevent cheaters by avoiding altruistic cell death in Dictyostelium .