A huge chunk of a tardigrade's genome comes from foreign DNA
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have sequenced the genome of the nearly indestructible tardigrade, the only animal known to survive the extreme environment of outer space, and found something they never expected: that they get a huge chunk of their genome - nearly one-sixth or 17.5 percent - from foreign DNA.