Jul. 19th, 2021

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"The discovery of a gene shared by two unrelated species of fish is the latest evidence that horizontal gene transfers occur surprisingly often in vertebrates."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/dna-jumps-between-animal-species-no-one-knows-how-often-20210609/

"He points out that the immune system’s ability to generate an astronomical diversity of antibodies seems to have come from a TE (transposable element) that suddenly entered the genome of the ancestor of all jawed vertebrates 400 million years ago."

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