GENETIC CHIMERAS. “Every genome is a historical product and, just like the cell, it is the result of ancient symbioses and horizontal gene transfers. We are genomic chimeras: nearly 50% of the human genome consists of transposable DNA sequences acquired exogenously possibly by the horizontal gene transfer from microbial symbionts to animal cells.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022