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The genetic secrets of sperm warfare
- marojejian 7mo agoThis fits into my larger theory, that a large fraction of "success" is attributable to zero-sum exploitation of the detail of a functional system. Here, a selfish chromosome exploits a system that detects damaged chromosomes to eliminate rivals. the paper they cite: >Selfish chromosomes exploit a germline checkpoint to eliminate competing gametes https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-68254-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-68254-7