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Nature 391, 335-338 (22 January 1998) | doi:10.1038/34790

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Genetic recombination:  From competition to collaboration

Roland Kanaar1 & Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers1

Politics and science furnish many examples of the dramatically different effects of competition and collaboration. Similar phenomena occur at the molecular level in nature, and four reports1, 2, 3, 4 (three of them in this issue2, 3, 4, beginning on page 401) demonstrate the point.

  1. Roland Kanaar and Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers are in the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    e-mails: Email: kanaar@pop.fgg.eur.nl;
    Email: hoeijmakers@gen.fgg.eur.nl