Studies of an old genetic puzzle in a little-known protozoan reveal a new frontier in the expanding world of RNAs: an RNA template guides genome-wide DNA rearrangements during sexual reproduction.
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Yao, MC. RNA rules. Nature 451, 131–132 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/451131a
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