Centromere Swap (IMAGE)

Duke University

Centromere Swap

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A new paper from Duke molecular genetics and microbiology shows how pathogenic Cryptococcus fungi evolved from having many sexes to just two through 50 million years of gene swapping.

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Kara Manke

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