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Infection elevates diversity

Aneil F. Agrawal ()
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Aneil F. Agrawal: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada.

Nature, 2015, vol. 525, issue 7570, 464-465

Abstract: Chromosomal shuffling in parental eggs or sperm can create new characteristics in the next generation. In fruit flies, it seems that mothers with a parasitic infection produce more such recombinant offspring than uninfected mothers.

Date: 2015
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