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A large gene family in fission yeast encodes spore killers that subvert Mendel’s law

Spore killers in fungi are selfish genetic elements that distort Mendelian segregation in their favor. It remains unclear how many species harbor them and how diverse their mechanisms are. Here, we discover two spore killers from a natural isolate of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Both...

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Autores principales: Hu, Wen, Jiang, Zhao-Di, Suo, Fang, Zheng, Jin-Xin, He, Wan-Zhong, Du, Li-Lin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28631610
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26057