Fruit flies and selfish genetic elements (IMAGE)

University of Rochester

Fruit flies and selfish genetic elements

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Rochester researchers used fruit flies as model organisms to study Segregator Distorter (SD), a selfish genetic element that skews the rules of fair genetic transmission.

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University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster

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