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About Dictyostelium discoideum AX4
Dictyostelium discoideum is a species of soil-dwelling amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa. Commonly referred to as slime mold, D. discoideum is a eukaryote that transitions from a collection of unicellular amoebae into a multicellular slug and then into a fruiting body within its lifetime. Its unique asexual life cycle consists of four stages: vegetative, aggregation, migration, and culmination. The life cycle of D. discoideum is relatively short, which allows for timely viewing of all stages. The cells involved in the life cycle undergo movement, chemical signaling, and development, which are applicable to human cancer research. The simplicity of its life cycle makes D. discoideum a valuable model organism to study genetic, cellular, and biochemical processes in other organisms.
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Taxonomy ID 352472
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More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia
Taxonomy ID 352472
Data source European Nucleotide Archive
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What can I find? Homologues, gene trees, and whole genome alignments across multiple species.
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Variation
This species currently has no variation database. However you can process your own variants using the Variant Effect Predictor:
Other data
The ESTs sequenced from different stages of Dictyostelium development were also downloaded from dictyBase and aligned to the genome using exonerate.
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