<i>Dictyostelium discoideum</i> (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

<i>Dictyostelium discoideum</i>

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This isDictyostelium discoideum fruiting bodies, showing the stalk made up of cells that died to lift the spores to facilitate their transport by insects

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Photo: Tyler Larsen/Washington University

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