Finding a second selfish element in the nematode, he says, suggests that these may not be as rare in animals as people have thought. (sciencenews.org)
Burt's notion was to domesticate a microbial family of selfish elements called homing endonuclease genes. (sciencenews.org)
Selfish elements live in a wide variety of organisms (including humans), and have devised a variety of methods for getting themselves passed on. (sciencenews.org)