Some of our genes are foreign, and not from our ancestors

Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 11:31 in Biology & Nature

Many animals, including humans, acquired essential ‘foreign’ genes from microorganisms co-habiting their environment in ancient times, according to research published in the open access journal Genome Biology. The study challenges […]

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