How chromosomes 'cheat' for the chance to get into an egg

(University of Pennsylvania) Chromosomes can 'cheat,' biasing the chance that they will make it into a sex cell. A team from the University of Pennsylvania shows how this bias arises in female cells, detecting molecular signals that create an asymmetry in the machinery that drives meiosis, the cell-division process that gives rise to gametes.
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