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1: Genome Biol. 2005;6(6):222. Epub 2005 May 9.Click here to read Click here to read Links

The Dictyostelium genome: the private life of a social model revealed?

Insall R.

School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. R.H.Insall@bham.ac.uk

The complete genome sequence of Dictyostelium, a widely studied social amoeba, reveals unexpected complexities in genome structure, and cell motility and signaling, most notably the presence of a large number of G-protein-coupled receptors not previously found outside animals and the absence of receptor tyrosine kinases.

PMID: 15960812 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC1175964