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Horizontally acquired antibacterial genes associated with adaptive radiation of ladybird beetles

BACKGROUND: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has been documented in many herbivorous insects, conferring the ability to digest plant material and promoting their remarkable ecological diversification. Previous reports suggest HGT of antibacterial enzymes may have contributed to the insect immune respo...

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Autores principales: Li, Hao-Sen, Tang, Xue-Fei, Huang, Yu-Hao, Xu, Ze-Yu, Chen, Mei-Lan, Du, Xue-Yong, Qiu, Bo-Yuan, Chen, Pei-Tao, Zhang, Wei, Ślipiński, Adam, Escalona, Hermes E., Waterhouse, Robert M., Zwick, Andreas, Pang, Hong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7807722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33446206
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00945-7