Publication Date:
2016-06-01
Description:
Through a draft genome sequencing of a tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini, Boothby et al. (1) report that “Approximately one-sixth of the genes in the tardigrade genome were found to have been acquired through horizontal transfer, a proportion nearly double the proportion of previous known cases of extreme horizontal gene transfer (HGT)...
Keywords:
Letters
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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