Male-harming DNA mutation reinforces ‘mother’s curse’ hypothesis
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 08:01
in Biology & Nature
There is new evidence that the “mother’s curse” – the possibility that moms may transmit genes to their children that harm their sons but not their daughters – holds true in animals. Such a possibility arises because there are two independent parts of the genome in the eukaryote cells, which are found in plants and […]