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Evolution of developmental cyclic adenosine monophosphate signaling in the Dictyostelia from an amoebozoan stress response

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A contemporary evaluation of the acrasids (Acrasidae, Heterolobosea, Excavata)

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phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

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Comparative genomics of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum and Dictyostelium purpureum

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“Slime Molds” among the Tubulinea (Amoebozoa): Molecular Systematics and Taxonomy of Copromyxa

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Using false discovery rates for multiple comparisons in ecology and evolution

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Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data

(2010) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A cAMP Signaling Model Explains the Benefit of Maintaining Two Forms of Phosphodiesterase in Dictyostelium

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Phylogeny of the "Forgotten" Cellular Slime Mold, Fonticula alba, Reveals a Key Evolutionary Branch within Opisthokonta

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Activated cAMP receptors switch encystation into sporulation

(2009) Y. Kawabe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TOPALi v2: a rich graphical interface for evolutionary analyses of multiple alignments on HPC clusters and multi-core desktops

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