Genome of a tardigrade: Horizontal gene transfer orbacterial contamination?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 22, 2016, Pages E3054-E3056

  Bemm, Felix ^a   Wei, Clemens Leonard ^a   Schultz, Jörg ^b,c   Försterc, Frank ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; TARDIGRADA;

GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 84971420466     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525116113     Document Type: Letter

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3. Koutsovoulos G, et al. (2016) No evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer in the genome of the tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA113(18):5053-5058.