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Jumping between Turtles, Fishes, and a Frog: The Unexpected Horizontal Transfer of a DNA Transposon
N. T. Hassan, D. L. Adelson, J. D. Galbraith
The paper identifies a recent horizontal transfer of the hAT-6 DNA transposon between turtles, fishes, and a frog, highlighting its functional transposition activity despite turtles' low genomic evolutionary rate.
DOI 10.1101/2023.08.19.550906