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Bdelloid rotifers deploy horizontally acquired biosynthetic genes against a fungal pathogen - Nature Communications

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By Reuben W Nowell, Fernando Rodriguez, Fernando Rodríguez Verified, Bette J. Hecox-Lea, Irina R. Arkhipova
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Abstract Coevolutionary antagonism generates relentless selection that can favour genetic exchange, including transfer of antibiotic synthesis and resistance genes among bacteria, and sexual recombination of disease resistance alleles in eukaryotes. We report an unusual link between biological conflict and DNA transfer in bdelloid rotifers, microscopic animals whose genomes show elevated levels of horizontal gene transfer from non-metazoan taxa.
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