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Is DNA Repair a Substitute for Sex? (4/5/2008)

Team proposes an interesting hypothesis: Bdelloid rotifers have been able to give up sex and survive because they have evolved an extraordinary efficient mechanism for repairing harmful mutations to their DNA ...> Full Article

Hotspots found for chromosome gene-swapping (11/30/2007)

Simple mechanism for making sure that all chromosomes, even the shortest ones, have the crossovers required for meiosis ...> Full Article

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