Dicty Fruiting Bodies (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Dicty Fruiting Bodies

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The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum has both solitary and communal life stages. As long as food is abundant, it lives on its own, but when food is scarce the amoebae seek one another out. Together they form a slug that migrates toward the light and then a fruiting body that disperses spores from atop a stalk. The fruiting bodies are pictured here.

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Strassmann/Queller lab

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