Within-Arctic horizontal gene transfer as a driver of convergent evolution in distantly related microalgae
R. G. Dorrell, A. Kuo, Z. Fussy, E. H. Richardson, A. Salamov, N. Zarevski, N. J. Freyria, F. M. Ibarbalz, J. Jenkins, J. J. Pierella Karlusich, A. Stecca Steindorff, R. E. Edgar, L. Handley, K. Lail, A. Lipzen, , C. Lovejoy
The paper identifies horizontal gene transfer as a driver of convergent evolution in Arctic microalgae, highlighting ice-binding domain gene transfers between distantly related species.
bioRxiv · Jul 31, 2021Evolutionary Biology