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 […]

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