FEATURE ARTICLE
Tracking Down a Cheating Gene
Some genes will play dirty to gain a selective advantage
Barry Ganetzky
Acknowledgment
The author would like to thank the members of his laboratory, past and present, for their important contributions to the work reviewed here, and in particular, Cynthia Merrill, for her exceptional efforts, key discoveries and helpful comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation.
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