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Review
. 2001 Sep 21;106(6):647-50.
doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(01)00500-1.

Whence meiosis?

A M Villeneuve  1 , K J Hillers
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Whence meiosis?

A M Villeneuve et al. Cell. .
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Abstract

Sexual reproduction predominates among eukaryotic organisms on our planet. While debate continues over why this should be so, burgeoning genomic and functional information now allows us to begin to think reasonably about some of the events that may have occurred to make sex possible in the first place.

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