Genetic exchange among bdelloid rotifers is more likely due to horizontal gene transfer than to meiotic sex

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 723-732

  Debortoli, Nicolas ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Eyres, Isobel ^b   Fontaneto, Diego ^c   Hespeels, Boris ^a   Tang, Cuong Q ^b,d   Flot, Jean François ^e   Van Doninck, Karine ^a  

^a University of Namur   (Belgium)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

asexuals; cryptic species; gene conversion; haplowebs; HGT; recombination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BELGIUM; GENETICS; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MEIOSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; ROTIFERA;

ANIMALS; BELGIUM; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; HAPLOTYPES; MEIOSIS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; ROTIFERA;

EID: 84959277066     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.031     Document Type: Article

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