New publication: Horizontal gene transfer and fusion spread carotenogenesis among diverse heterotrophic protists
We find a remarkable case of parallel evolution of eukaryotic (apo)carotenogenesis in divergent protistan lineages by repeated gene transfers.The accepted manuscript features the dissertation work of Mariana Rius and is a collaboration w/ Jackie Collier and John Archibald’s lab was recently made available here at the Genome Biology and Evolution website.
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