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Gene transfer in complex cells

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A comparative genomic study shows that, during evolution, nucleus-containing cells acquired DNA from bacteria primarily by endosymbiosis — the uptake and integration of one cell by another. See Article p.427

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Figure 1: Acquiring foreign DNA.

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  1. John M. Archibald is in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada, and at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity, Toronto.,

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Archibald, J. Gene transfer in complex cells. Nature 524, 423–424 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15205

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