Evolutionary genomics: transdomain gene transfers.
Biologists have until now conceded that bacterial gene transfer to multicellular animals is relatively uncommon in Nature. A new study showing promiscuous insertions of bacterial endosymbiont genes into invertebrate genomes ushers in a shift in this paradigm.
Bordenstein
Seth R
SR
Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA. sbordenstein@mbl.edu
D000818:Animals; D001181:Arthropods / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics; D009348:Nematoda / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology*; D020577:Wolbachia / Q000235:genetics*