discoidin Archives - Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network https://blogs.bcm.edu/tag/discoidin/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:46:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://blogs.bcm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2d904ab48738e474191a678dceb72b07.png discoidin Archives - Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network https://blogs.bcm.edu/tag/discoidin/ 32 32 122339384 The social amoeba’s surviving balancing act https://blogs.bcm.edu/2018/09/25/the-social-amoebas-surviving-balancing-act/ https://blogs.bcm.edu/2018/09/25/the-social-amoebas-surviving-balancing-act/#respond Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:30:27 +0000 https://blogs.bcm.edu/?p=20340 Single-celled bodies of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum live in the soil voraciously feeding on bacteria. As this food source dwindles, the amoebas get stressed

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