And it might be the case that ants weren’t, either. A Rice University graduate student may have discovered proto-agricultural behavior in amobeas: It’s too bad they don’t make microscopic overalls. The amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum could use a pair. A new study finds that the single-celled organism is a farmer of sorts. It picks up bacteria, carries [...]
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