Horizontal gene transfer in bdelloid rotifers is ancient, ongoing and more frequent in species from desiccating habitats

BMC Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Eyres, Isobel ^a,d   Boschetti, Chiara ^b   Crisp, Alastair ^b   Smith, Thomas P ^a   Fontaneto, Diego ^c   Tunnacliffe, Alan ^b   Barraclough, Timothy G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute for Aerospace Research   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Bdelloid rotifers; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Lateral gene transfer; Metazoans

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DESICCATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; ROTIFERA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DESICCATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; ROTIFERA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84946213308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-015-0202-9     Document Type: Article

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