ON CELLS AND NUCLEI. “And while cell–cell and nuclear–nuclear fusion play prominent roles in sexual reproduction today, there may have been an era in which endoreplication cycles followed by meiosis drove the processes of ploidy change during ancestral modes of sexual reproduction. In this view, cell–cell fusion may be ancient, but perhaps not as ancient as other features of sexual reproduction.”
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