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SUBMITTER: Selman M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3337132 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Selman Mohammed M Corradi Nicolas N
Mobile genetic elements 20111101 4
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites whose genomes have been shaped by an extreme lifestyle. Specifically, their obligate intracellular parasitism has resulted in the loss of many genes and biochemical pathways, but these reductive processes have been often offset by the acquisition of several genes by means of horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Until recently, these HGTs were all found to have derived from prokaryotic donors, but a recent study suggests that some species took advanta ...[more]