Amino Acid Repeats Cause Extraordinary Coding Sequence Variation in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

• Clea Scala ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Clea Scala, Xiangjun Tian

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Xiangjun Tian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Clea Scala, Xiangjun Tian

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Natasha J. Mehdiabadi,

  Current address: Department of Entomology and Laboratories of Analytical Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America, and Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Margaret H. Smith,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Gerda Saxer,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Katie Stephens,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Prince Buzombo,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Joan E. Strassmann,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• David C. Queller

  * E-mail: queller@wustl.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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