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. 2018 Jan 22;28(2):R80-R83.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.11.052.

Sex Determination: Sterility Genes out of Sequence

John R Pannell  1 , Jörn Gerchen  2
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Sex Determination: Sterility Genes out of Sequence

John R Pannell et al. Curr Biol. .
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The canonical model for the evolution of separate sexes in plants invokes sterility mutations at two linked loci. A new study claims to have found them in asparagus, but the order of their origin does not conform to expectation.

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