Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in the holocentric plant Rhynchospora tenuis
Meng Zhang, Marco Castellani, Stefan Steckenborn…·André Marques
This study shows that Rhynchospora tenuis undergoes obligate achiasmy in both sexes, leading to clonal-like inheritance through post-meiotic selection and TE-driven segregation distortion.