What is it about?
A rare gene transfer event from mosquitoes to fungi.
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Why is it important?
The HGT among eukaryotic organisms were rarely reported. Now with more of the eukaryotic whole-genome sequences available, it is possible to detect these potential HGT events within eukaryotes, and they may be common as well.
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This page is a summary of: Genome-Wide Survey of Gut Fungi (Harpellales) Reveals the First Horizontally Transferred Ubiquitin Gene from a Mosquito Host, Molecular Biology and Evolution, June 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msw126.
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