Desiccation Does Not Drastically Increase the Accessibility of Foreign DNA to the Nuclear Genomes: Evidence from the Frequency of Endosymbiotic DNA Transfer
X.-X. Li, C. Fang, J.-P. Zhao, X.-Y. Zhou, Z. Ni, D.-K. Niu
The paper investigates whether desiccation increases foreign DNA integration into nuclear genomes by analyzing NUMT and NUPT abundance in desiccation-tolerant and sensitive organisms, finding no significant increase.
bioRxiv · Nov 8, 2018Evolutionary Biology