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A new study finds that the femaleless gene is essential for sexual development and repression of X-chromosome dosage compensation in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. This could provide the basis for a new genetic approach to control this pest.Genetic loci coding for a toxin and its antidote behave like selfish elements. Two new studies find an accumulation of such elements in one species.During cell competition fitter cells eliminate the weaker ones. New work identifies FGF21 as a factor that is secreted by the prospective lose