Autophagy is the major cellular pathway for the degradation of long-lived proteins and
cytoplasmic organelles. It involves the rearrangement of subcellular membranes to …

The soil-dwelling social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum feeds on bacteria. Each meal is
a potential infection because some bacteria have evolved mechanisms to resist predation …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

The world is complex, but acknowledging its complexity requires an appreciation for the
many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. In Unsimple Truths, Sandra …

Social interactions are characterized by distinct forms of interdependence, each of which
has unique effects on how behavior unfolds within the interaction. Despite this, little is known …

The social amoebae are exceptional in their ability to alternate between unicellular and
multicellular forms. Here we describe the genome of the best-studied member of this group …

The growing complexity of real-world problems has motivated computer scientists to search
for efficient problem-solving methods. Evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence …

The emergence of collective motion among interacting, self-propelled agents is a central
paradigm in non-equilibrium physics. Examples of such active matter range from swimming …

Amoebae are protists that have complicated relationships with bacteria, covering the whole
spectrum of symbiosis. Amoeba-bacterium interactions contribute to the study of predation …

Agriculture has been a large part of the ecological success of humans. A handful of animals,
notably the fungus-growing ants, termites and ambrosia beetles,,, have advanced …