The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum integrates into a multicellular organism when individual starving cells aggregate and form a mound. The cells then integrate into defined tissues and develop into a fruiting body that consists of a stalk and spores. Aggregation is initially orchestrated by ...
Microbial assemblages at the SE Rockall Bank overlaying water, near-bottom water, sediment, Lophelia pertusa mucus and skeleton sampled at mound summit, mound slope and off-mound locations.