Sperm Massacre (IMAGE)

Brown University

Sperm Massacre

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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.

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Reenan lab/Brown University

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