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Acquired stress resilience through bacteria-to-nematode horizontal gene transfer
Taruna Pandey, Chinmay A. Kalluraya, Bingying Wang…·K. Dengke
The paper identifies a nematode gene acquired via horizontal gene transfer from bacteria that enhances stress resilience by enabling L-rhamnose biosynthesis for cuticle integrity.
DOI 10.1101/2023.08.20.554039