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Grafting or Pruning in the Animal Tree: Lateral Gene Transfer and Gene Loss?

2017-12-05

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Lateral gene transfer (LGT) into multicellular eukaryotes with differentiated tissues, particularly gonads, continues to be met with skepticism by many prominent evolutionary and genomic biologists. A detailed examination of 26 animal genomes identifed putative LGTs in invertebrate and vertebrate genomes, concluding that there are fewer predicted LGTs in vertebrates/chordates than invertebrates, but there is still...

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DOI: 10.1101/229468

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