Evolution: The End of an Ancient Asexual Scandal

Tanja Schwander

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.034

Evolution: The End of an Ancient Asexual Scandal

Curr Biol. 2016 Mar 21;26(6):R233-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.034.

Author

Tanja Schwander¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Le Biophore, CH - 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: tanja.schwander@unil.ch.

PMID: 27003885
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.034

Abstract

Bdelloid rotifers were believed to have persisted and diversified in the absence of sex. Two papers now show they exchange genes with each other, via horizontal gene transfers as known in bacteria and/or via other forms of non-canonical sex.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution*
Gene Transfer, Horizontal
Phylogeny
Reproduction, Asexual / genetics
Rotifera*