Metazoan ribotoxin genes acquired by Horizontal Gene Transfer
Walter Jesus Lapadula, Paula Lorena Marcet, Maria Laura Mascotti, Maria Virginia Sanchez-Puerta, 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.
bioRxiv · Aug 26, 2016Evolutionary Biology