At least in polyploids.
So says this review of this paper. Take home message: polyploids use duplicates to buffer against mutations to important genes.
The review is brought to you by the Science Creative Quarterly. SCQ is brought to you by David Ng, who has just introduced The Filter. If you don't know about SCQ, you should check it out. And if you know about SCQ but haven't discovered The Filter, you should check that out.
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Go check out some of my poetry, based on the Fibonacci sequence, now published in the Science Creative Quarterly (SCQ)!
In addition to containing the Truth, the Science Creative Quarterly (SCQ) contains a whole lot of really excellent science writing. Some of it is by ScienceBloggers, but much of it is not.
The SCQ children's book contest is back again.
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As a Director of a science teaching facility, who sees maybe close to 2000 high schoolers in my lab each year, I'm hoping we can have a good showing in this great DonorsChoose challenge that Janet set up.