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Published online 27 September 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020923-11
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Genes caught skipping from bacteria to beetle
Tokyo team claims first direct evidence of horizontal gene transfer.
Researchers think they have caught a set of bacterial genes that jumped ship and relocated to the genome of a Japanese beetle.
They could be the first to witness natural horizontal gene transfer between a bacterium and an animal.
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