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Genomic and Epigenetic Interplay Drives Adaptive Fusion via Reproduction Trade-Off
Yang Chen, Lin Bi, Xiaoli Fan…·Gaowen Liu
The paper shows how epigenetic silencing and genetic changes enable Prm1-independent fusion in yeast, but at the cost of mitotic growth, while synthetic mutations avoid this trade-off.
DOI 10.1101/2025.09.26.678705