Gender- and gamete-specific patterns of X chromosome segregation in a three-gendered nematode
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School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK Department of Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK Present address: INRA, UMR1355 Institute Sophia Agrobiotech, F-06903 Sophia Antipolis, France Present address: Departments of Molecular Medicine and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA. *Corresponding author
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