Developmental Cell
Volume 46, Issue 3, 6 August 2018, Pages 251-253
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RNAi Doxxes Segregation Distorters on the X

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Species with chromosomal sex determination are susceptible to an evolutionary tug-of-war over sex chromosome segregation. RNA silencing has been proposed to play a role in this intragenomic conflict. Reporting in Developmental Cell, Lin et al. (2018) demonstrate that RNA interference is key to this conflict as a genome defender.

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