Technical Reference #684

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Exploitation Of Other Social Amoebae By Dictyostelium Caveatum Clément Nizak;*¤ Robert J. Fitzhenry; and Richard H. Kessin - Not in ACT, Rockefeller University, PLoS ONE, NA(684), (2007)
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Abstract:
Dictyostelium amoebae faced with starvation trigger a developmental program during which many cells aggregate and form fruiting bodies that consist of a ball of spores held aloft by a thin stalk. This developmental strategy is open to several forms of exp

Materials & Methods:
In the case of phagocytosis experiments cells were incubated in a SorC or HL5 medium-filled Petri dish the bottom of which was made out of a glass coverslip (MatTek).

Microscopic Technique
Live Cell Microscopy

Cell Type(s)
D. discoideum strains AX3