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New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, in collaboration with the National Institute for Biological Sciences in Beijing, China has uncovered a selfish gene family that has survived for over 100 million years - 10 times longer than any meiotic driver ever identified - casting new doubt on established beliefs on how natural selection and evolution tackle these threatening sequences.
/PRNewswire/ Meiotic drivers, a type of selfish gene, are indeed selfish. Present in the genomes of nearly all species, including humans, they unfairly.