SURVIVAL STRATEGY. “The pervasive horizontal transfer of cif genes may allow them to evade inevitable extinction within symbiont lineages by escaping into a new symbiont population. This process is analogous to the evolution of transposable elements, which frequently go extinct within host species, but persist long term by jumping into new species.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022