The genomes of polyextremophilic Cyanidiales contain 1% horizontally transferred genes with diverse adaptive functions
A. W. Rossoni, D. C. Price, M. Seger, D. Lyska, P. Lammers, D. Bhattacharya, A. P. M. Weber
The paper analyzes 10 Cyanidiales genomes and finds 1% of their genes are horizontally transferred from polyextremophilic prokaryotes, with implications for eukaryotic genome evolution.
bioRxiv · Jan 23, 2019Evolutionary Biology