Studies on the genomic basis for establishment of multicellular systems using the social amoebae

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The genome and cDNA analyses were performed in Acytostelium subglobosum, a cellular slime mold species without stalk-cell differentiation, and approximately 13,000 genes were identified. They included orthologues for most of the cell-differentiation related genes in Dictyostelium discoideum, the most widely used species with cell-differentiation abilities. However, closer examination of multi-gene families revealed that the family compositions were dissimilar between the two species.