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No Sex, But Plenty of Gene Transfer
DNA from many other species is discovered in bdelloid rotifer genomes
MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—Where do you get your genes?
If you are an animal, you inherit them from your parents at the moment of conception, and that’s about it. No later incorporation of environmental DNA for you, unless you become host to a parasite or an endosymbiont that somehow transfers bits of its genome into yours (which is a rarely documented event).
Unless you are a bdelloid rotifer, that is... More>>> |
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Citation:
Gladyshev, E.A., M. Meselson, and I.R. Arkhipova. 2008. Massive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bdelloid Rotifers. Science 320: 1210-1213.
Previous Reports:
2008
2007
2005
2004
Irina Arkhipova Lab
Matthew Meselson Lab:
At the MBL
At Harvard University
Irina Arkhipova and Matthew Meselson are founding members of the Mobile Genetic Element Cluster at the MBL.
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