Eukaryotic acquisition of a bacterial operon
J. Kominek, D. T. Doering, D. A. Opulente, X.-X. Shen, X. Zhou, J. DeVirgilio, A. B. Hulfachor, C. P. Kurtzman, A. Rokas, C. T. Hittinger
The paper reports the horizontal transfer of a bacterial operon into yeast, showing its adaptation to eukaryotic gene expression and iron acquisition in an insect gut environment.
bioRxiv · Aug 24, 2018Evolutionary Biology