Researchers find that gene related to germ cell formation is far older than first thought
Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 13:01
in Biology & Nature
Harvard scientists have solved the long-standing mystery of how some insects form the germ cells – the cellular precursors to the eggs and sperm necessary for sexual reproduction – and the answer is shedding new light on the evolutionary origins of a gene that had long been thought to be critical to the process.