In this issue of Developmental Cell, Toker et al. show that in C. elegans, stress-induced sperm defects lead to epigenetically heritable increased sexual attractiveness and increased mating between hermaphrodites and males. This effect is proposed to aid in evolutionary adaptation to stressful conditions by increasing genetic variation.
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