CV Lattes
ORCID
Abstract
Social amoebae of the genus Dictyostelium, especially Dictyosteliumdiscoideum, are widely used as a model organism for biological studies in population genetics and molecular and cell biology. Although D. discoideum maintains a unicellular and asexual life cycle most of the time, when subjected to food shortages, they aggregate in a multicellular shape and form peduncles with spores that …