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| Open AccessThe GATA transcription factor GtaC regulates early developmental gene expression dynamics in Dictyostelium
Development involves dynamic transcriptional changes. By serial ChIP- and RNA-sequencing, here, the authors show that GtaC, a GATA type transcription factor, exhibits temporally distinctive DNA binding and regulation of gene expression concordant with the development in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.
- Balaji Santhanam
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| Open AccessTemporal regulation of kin recognition maintains recognition-cue diversity and suppresses cheating
It is unclear how variation in cues that enable recognition of kin and facilitate cooperation is maintained. Here, the authors show that rare variants of Dictyostelium discoideumare excluded from aggregates when the potential for social cheating is high, but subsequently rejoin the aggregate and produce spores.
- Hsing-I Ho
- & Gad Shaulsky