Horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers is ancient, ongoing and more frequent in species from desiccating habitats

BACKGROUND: Although prevalent in prokaryotes, horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is rarer in multicellular eukaryotes. Bdelloid rotifers are microscopic animals that contain a higher proportion of horizontally transferred, non-metazoan genes in their genomes than typical of animals. It has been hypothe...

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Autores principales: Eyres, Isobel, Boschetti, Chiara, Crisp, Alastair, Smith, Thomas P., Fontaneto, Diego, Tunnacliffe, Alan, Barraclough, Timothy G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4632278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26537913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-015-0202-9

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