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Aborting 87% of its seeds lets a Brazilian sedge hand its genome on unchanged
An international team reports in Nature that Rhynchospora tenuis has no meiotic crossovers in either sex, and that selection after fertilization kills off every seed that fails to rebuild the mother's exact chromosome pairing.
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