… history of Dictyostelids, this book considers the problems of the evolution of this multicellular
… an elaborate assemblage of thousands of synchronously moving cells. Each stage of this …

… The Dictyostelium … the developmental and cell biological aspects of Dictyostelium. The
writing is exceptionally clear throughout. The book is part of the Developmental and Cell Biology …

… evolution of cell-type specialisation and behavioural complexity in the four major groups of
Dictyostelia… followed by a wide range of molecular genetic and cell biological methodologies. …

… co-evolved in Dictyostelia. In addition, we summarize comparative genomic studies of
multicellular Dictyostelia and unicellular Amoebozoa aimed to identify evolutionary conservation …

… of the cellular and developmental complexity of Dictyostelium. … vision of the place of
Dictyostelium in eukaryote evolution. … the well-founded cell biology and powerful molecular …

… multicellular development (as we will discuss below). In contrast, metazoan multicellularity
is clonal and obligate where a transition between unicellularity and multicellularity does not …

… Dictyostelium discoideum is a model organism that has provided insight into the origins of
multicellularity, sociality, development, and cell biology 1-4. Dictyostelium is a member of the …

… that destroys subsequent development is lethal and … multicellularity by exploiting the social
amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, which has a unicellular stage that allows development…

… multicellular aggregate formed by developing cells of the slime mould Dictyostelium
discoideum…in Dictyostelium … easily from multicellularity, as we will explore in the following …

… an independent origin of multicellularity in animals and social … unikonts evolved from an
ancestor with a simple multicellular … Additional cell biological studies of epithelial polarity in both …