Ancient horizontal transfers of retrotransposons between birds and ancestors of human pathogenic nematodes
Alexander Suh, Christopher C. Witt, Juliana Menger and 8 more
Nature Communications · 2016
doi:10.1038/ncomms11396 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
Lymphatic filariasis and loiasis are diseases caused by insect-borne filarial nematodes. Here, Suh et al. identify a retrotransposon that is present in the genomes of these nematodes and seven tropical bird lineages, indicating two waves of horizontal gene transfer around 17–25 million years ago.
Abstract licence: CC BY-NC-ND
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