Sex without the shuffle – a plant that breaks the rules of inheritance
In a new study, now published in Nature, an international team, led by André Marques at the MPIPZ has shown that the Brazilian beak-sedge Rhynchospora tenuis reproduces sexually, but has completely lost the reshuffling of DNA between the chromosomes from each parent.
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