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Investigating host tolerance to genes that jump – EurekAlert
Believe it or not, your genes are 50% parasite, and opportunistic at that. They tend to jump onto sperm and egg cells to replicate in the next generation, a process that can devastate an egg or sperm cell. A University of Houston evolutionary geneticist, arme…
IMAGE: Evolutionary Geneticist Erin Kelleher, associate professor of biology and biochemistry at the University of Houston is exploring “jumping genes ” and host tolerance.
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Believe it or not, your genes are 50% parasite, and opportunistic at that. They tend to jump onto sperm and egg cells to replicate in the next generation, a process that can devastate an egg or sperm cell. A University of Houston evolutionary geneticist, armed with a new $1.8 Milli…
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