TWiEVO 30: Driving Miss Maize-y - a podcast by Vincent Racaniello
from 2018-04-21T12:14:57
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Nels and Vincent reveal how a motor protein in corn causes preferential transmission of chromosomes to egg cells, leading to non-Mendelian inheritance.
Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello
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