Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Metazoan ribotoxin genes acquired by Horizontal Gene Transfer
Walter Jesus Lapadula, Paula Lorena Marcet, Maria Laura Mascotti…·Maximiliano Juri Ayub
The paper confirms the presence of ribotoxin genes in mosquito species and shows they originated from a single horizontal gene transfer event from a cyanobacterial donor.
DOI 10.1038/s41598-017-01859-1