Cell biology: Selfish B chromosomes unleashed by a dysfunctional chromosome segregation system

Cell biology: Selfish B chromosomes unleashed by a dysfunctional chromosome segregation system

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P. Ferree,  Current Biology,  33:R431-R434. 2023.

A study in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster shows that a defective chromosome segregation system allows non-essential B chromosomes to transmit at higher-than-Mendelian frequencies.