Evolutionary genomics: transdomain gene transfers |
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| Authors: | Bordenstein Seth R |
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| Affiliation: | Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA. sbordenstein@mbl.edu |
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Biologists have until now conceded that bacterial gene transfer to multicellular animals is relatively uncommon in Nature. A new study showing promiscuous insertions of bacterial endosymbiont genes into invertebrate genomes ushers in a shift in this paradigm. |
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