Infection elevates diversity

  • Agrawal A
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Abstract

Chromosomal shuffling in parental eggs or sperm can create new characteristics in the next generation. In fruit flies, it seems that mothers with a parasitic infection produce more such recombinant offspring than uninfected mothers.

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Agrawal, A. F. (2015). Infection elevates diversity. Nature, 525(7570), 464–465. https://doi.org/10.1038/525464a

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