Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Recurrent acquisition of alien ribotoxin encoding genes by insect genomes
W. J. Lapadula, M. L. Mascotti, M. Juri Ayub
The paper identifies two RIP encoding genes in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci genome, derived from an independent horizontal gene transfer event from a plant source, distinct from mosquito RIPs.
DOI 10.1038/s41598-020-72267-1