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“Massive” Horizontal Gene Transfer In Animal Kingdom Revealed

If you’re an animal, you inherit your genes from your parents at the moment of conception, right? Not quite, according to scientists from the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), who have uncovered evidence of “massive” horizontal gene transfer in the animal known as the bdelloid rotifer. Reporting their findings in Science, the researchers say […]

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