How Jumping Genes Help Drive Evolution

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 - 08:30 in Biology & Nature

Widespread transfer of genes between species has radically changed the genomes of today’s mammals, researchers at the University of Adelaide have found. In the world’s largest study of so-called “jumping genes”, the researchers have traced two particular jumping genes across 759 species of plants, animals and fungi. These jumping genes are actually small pieces of […]

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