On the reversibility of parasitism: adaptation to a free-living lifestyle via gene acquisitions in the diplomonad Trepomonas sp. PC1

BACKGROUND: It is generally thought that the evolutionary transition to parasitism is irreversible because it is associated with the loss of functions needed for a free-living lifestyle. Nevertheless, free-living taxa are sometimes nested within parasite clades in phylogenetic trees, which could ind...

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Autores principales: Xu, Feifei, Jerlström-Hultqvist, Jon, Kolisko, Martin, Simpson, Alastair G. B., Roger, Andrew J., Svärd, Staffan G., Andersson, Jan O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4967989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27480115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-016-0284-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4967989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27480115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-016-0284-z

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