Clipmarks - Bdelloid Clipmarks

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POPS Common Aquatic Animal's Genome Can Capture Foreign DNA

by Silkweaver 5-31-2008

"These fascinating animals not only have relaxed the barriers to incorporation of foreign genetic material, but, more surprisingly, they even managed to keep some of these alien genes functional,"

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POPS Bdelloids can take advantage of the entire environmental metagenome

by Beholder 5-30-2008

Nearly all other multicellular animals have strong safeguards against foreign DNA, but bdelloids' seeming embrace of genetic detritus is in keeping with their general quirkiness: Shunning sex and entirely lacking males, the ubiquitous creatures are also extraordinarily resistant to radiation, as Meselson and Gladyshev demonstrated earlier this year in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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POPS Water creatures caught stealing DNA