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The life cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum is described briefly in Box 11-C. About 105 individual amebas aggregate to form a moving "slug" in response to the chemoattractant cAMP. Some other species of Dictyostelium are attracted to a folic acid derivative or to the ethyl ester of N-propionyl-y-L-glutamyl-L-omithine-5-lactam 226... 

Fig. 5.1 Multicellular stages of Dictyostelium discoideum development, as isolated in 1933 from decaying leaves in a forest in North Carolina (photographs by K. B. Raper) [4]. (A) Aggregation center (B) pseudoplasmodium transforming from mound stage to a migrating slug (C, D) migrating slugs ...

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