Data from: Programmed death in a unicellular organism has species-specific fitness effects

Research datakeyboard_double_arrow_right Dataset 31 Jan 2015Embargo end date: 31 Jan 2015Publisher:University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgFunded by:NSF | Life-history Trade-offs a...

Authors: Durand, Pierre M.; Choudhury, Rajdeep; Rashidi, Armin,; Michod, Richard E.;

doi: 10.71796/wits-figshare.31361200 , 10.5061/dryad.jt2b5 , 10.71796/wits-figshare.31361200.v1

Data from: Programmed death in a unicellular organism has species-specific fitness effects

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Programmed cell death (PCD) is an ancient phenomenon and its origin and maintenance in unicellular life is unclear. We report that programmed death provides differential fitness effects that are species specific in the model organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Remarkably, PCD in this organism not only benefits others of the same species, but also has an inhibitory effect on the growth of other species. These data reveal that the fitness effects of PCD can depend upon genetic relatedness.

Absorbance dataRaw data of absorbances of culture relating to Fig 2 in main textcount dataCell count raw data for Fig 2 in main text

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University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa
University of Arizona
United States

Keywords

FOS: Biological sciences, Inclusive fitness, Evolutionary biology, PCD, Microbiology, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

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