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Starvation turns slime moulds into multicellular organisms
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Starvation turns slime moulds into multicellular organisms

When the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, or Dicty for short, runs out of food, sulfur limitation drives its development from a unicellular to a multicellular organism. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics present the nutrient signaling pathways in this early eukaryote in great detail. Their results show how metabolism may have played a crucial...