Five species of duckweed (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Five species of duckweed

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Genes required for chromosomal small RNA are missing in certain duckweed species. This may explain the emergence of vigorous inter-species hybrids with three, rather than two, copies of each chromosome.

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Martienssen lab/CSHL

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