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Contact: David Orenstein
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Caption: Healthy spermatids (maturing sperm) of a fly, left, are decimated in a setting dominated by a "segregation distorter," right. A runaway snippet of code that rapidly copies itself helps expose spermatids to fatal attacks.
Credit: Reenan lab/Brown University
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