A common aquatic animal's genome can capture foreign DNA
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 13:49
in Biology & Nature
Long viewed as straitlaced spinsters, sexless freshwater invertebrate animals known as bdelloid rotifers may actually be far more promiscuous than anyone had imagined: Scientists at Harvard University have found that the genomes of these common creatures are chock-full of DNA from plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals.