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Unusual strains of the pathogen Candida albicans have been found that contain a single set of chromosomes. Formation of such haploid strains weeds out damaged copies of genes to promote evolution in the human body. See Article p.55

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Figure 1: Asexual evolution.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion2 were published online on 30 January 2013.

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Gow, N. Multiple mating strategies. Nature 494, 45–46 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11945

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