Genetic Exchange among Bdelloid Rotifers Is More Likely Due to Horizontal Gene Transfer Than to Meiotic Sex
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- 作者：Nicolas Debortoli1 ; Xiang Li1 ; Isobel Eyres2 ; Diego Fontaneto3 ; Boris Hespeels1 ; Cuong Q. Tang2 ; 4 ; Jean-Franç ; ois Flot5 ; jflot@ulb.ac.be" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Karine Van Doninck1 ; karine.vandoninck@unamur.be" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：asexuals ; haplowebs ; HGT ; gene conversion ; cryptic species ; recombination
- 刊名：Current Biology
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：21 March 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：26
- 期：6
- 页码：723-732
- 全文大小：2696 K
文摘
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Bdelloid individuals of the genus Adineta exchange DNA within and between species
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Signatures of exchanges are scattered among genomic regions evolving asexually
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Such patchwork pattern is better explained by horizontal gene transfer than by sex