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Stowers Institute for Medical Research

WTF

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Illustration depicting the mechanism and distribution of antidote and poison expression. At the start of meiosis, both proteins are expressed. Later, antidote is only found outside of spores while poison protein is ubiquitous throughout. Finally, the mature spores that inherit wtf4 contain poison and antidote, while the other spores are destroyed.

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Stowers Institute for Medical Research

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