Horizontal gene transfer: How fungi improve their ability to infect insects

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Mar 8, 2024, 10:10 am217 pts
Researchers at the Kiel Evolution Center have investigated for the first time in detail how a fungus important for biological plant protection can pass on an advantageous chromosome horizontally, using a previously little-studied way of exchanging genetic information.

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