FACILITATED TRANSFER. “An increasing number of HTT events have been inferred to have occurred between parasites and their hosts, such as between blood-feeding insects and vertebrates, lampreys and teleost fishes, or nematodes and birds.” (HTT = horizontal transfer of jumping genes, TEs).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X17301685
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022