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Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes

Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes. Last week, we looked at a new study of the origin of complex cells, one that showed that our ancestors’ genomes were pieced together from bits and pieces of multiple species. It put a spotlight on a phenomenon called horizontal gene transfer, in whic... [5005 chars]

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