White mold fungi split their genome across several nuclei, with implications for future gene editing
By Xin Li, Professor, Botany, University of British Columbia
Edan Jackson, PhD Student, Botany, University of British Columbia
Josh Li, Masters Student, Medicine, University of British Columbia
Challenging the long-standing assumption that a cell’s nucleus contains a complete set of chromosomes, recent research reveals that some fungi nuclei only contain half.
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