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Horizontal Gene Transfer: Accidental Inheritance Drives Adaptation

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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 12, Pages R562-R564

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.04.042

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  1. Natural Environment Research Council [NE/H007466/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  2. Division Of Environmental Biology
  3. Direct For Biological Sciences [1036506] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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Few facts in biology are more certain than offspring inheriting genetic material from their parents, but not all genes are acquired this way. A new report documents the horizontal transfer of a potentially adaptive gene between distantly related plants.

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