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SUBMITTER: Nguyen TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5915273 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nguyen Tu Anh TA Greig Jamie J Khan Asif A Goh Cara C Jedd Gregory G
PLoS biology 20180424 4
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can promote evolutionary adaptation by transforming a species' relationship to the environment. In most well-understood cases of HGT, acquired and donor functions appear to remain closely related. Thus, the degree to which HGT can lead to evolutionary novelties remains unclear. Mucorales fungi sense gravity through the sedimentation of vacuolar protein crystals. Here, we identify the octahedral crystal matrix protein (OCTIN). Phylogenetic analysis strongly supports ...[more]