Study shows how plants sort and eliminate genes over millennia

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 13:31 in Biology & Nature

Hybrid plants with multiple genome copies show evidence of preferential treatment of the genes from one ancient parent over the genes of the other parent, even to the point where some of the unfavored genes eventually are deleted.

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