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Borrowed real estate: Sappinia lukoli, a new species of dung-dwelling amoeba that aggregates and hijacks the fruiting bodies of phylogenetically distant sorocarpic protists
T. Henderson, Benjamin Mixon, Charles R Thompson…·Matthew W. Brown
The paper describes a new amoeba species, Sappinia lukoli, that aggregates and hijacks the fruiting bodies of other protists in dung, showcasing convergent cooperative behavior across eukaryotic supergroups.