Selfish genes hide for decades in plain sight of worm geneticists

Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 14:22 in Biology & Nature

Crossing wild Hawaiian C. elegans with the familiar lab strain reveals genes that benefit themselves by making mother worms poison offspring who haven’t inherited the right stuff.

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