“Many animal genes are homologs of bacterial genes, mostly derived by descent, but occasionally by gene transfer from bacteria. For example, 37% of the ∼23,000 human genes have homologs in the Bacteria and Archaea, and another 28% originated in unicellular eukaryotes.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/9/3229.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022