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Dictyostelium discoideum ''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 ...

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Tools

dictyBase offers many ways of searching and retrieving data from the database: * dictyMart - a tool for retrieving varied information on many genes (or the sequences of those genes). * Genome Browser - browse the genes of ''D. discoideum'' in their genomic context.

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