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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."

Date: 2021-07-19 10:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] burrru.livejournal.com
Если не ошибка в исследовании, то фантастически любопытно.

Date: 2021-07-20 11:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snyders.livejournal.com
Да, интересно и непонятно, если это полезно для эволюции, то почему так редко происходит.

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