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Horizontal transfer - imperative mission of acellular life forms, Acytota
Acytota is a kingdom of life covering satellites, plasmids, transposable elements, viroids and viruses, all outside the conventional tree of life but satisfying most life definitions. This review focuses on some aspects of Acytota, their “genomes” and life styles, the dominance of transposable eleme...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4836480/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27141324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2159256X.2016.1154636 |
| Sumario: | Acytota is a kingdom of life covering satellites, plasmids, transposable elements, viroids and viruses, all outside the conventional tree of life but satisfying most life definitions. This review focuses on some aspects of Acytota, their “genomes” and life styles, the dominance of transposable elements and their evolutionary influence on other life forms in order to vindicate the Acytota as a life kingdom no more polyphyletic than other kingdoms and its members no more parasitic than other life forms. |
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