Farming writ small

Jacobus J. Boomsma
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Jacobus J. Boomsma: Jacobus J. (Koos) Boomsma is in the Centre for Social Evolution, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. jjboomsma@bio.ku.dk

Nature, 2011, vol. 469, issue 7330, 308-309

Abstract: Social slime moulds graze on bacteria, but save some for transmission in their spores. Strains practising this primitive form of farming coexist with non-farmer strains in an intriguing cost–benefit equilibrium. See Letter p.393

Date: 2011
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