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Wavelike aggregation of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae after starvation. The amoebae aggregate in bands forming concentric or spiral patterns in response to pulses of cyclic AMP (cAMP) emitted with a period of 5–10 min by cells behaving as aggregation centres (reproduced from Alcantara & Monk [128]).
