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. 2016 May 3;113(18):4892-4.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1603862113. Epub 2016 Apr 15.

A tale of two tardigrades

Thomas A Richards  1 , Adam Monier  2
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A tale of two tardigrades

Thomas A Richards et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Estimated contribution of HGT into eight eukaryotic genomes (, , , , , –; see also refs. and 33). The bar chart illustrates contradictory results (red and gray bars) for HGT into the tardigrade H. dujardini genome. An asterisk indicates an organism that can occupy an extreme environment. Images courtesy of PhyloPic CC-BY 3.0 and (Trichomonas) T. Michael Keesey; (Caenorhabditis) Gareth Monger; (Rotifer) Diego Fontaneto, Elisabeth A. Herniou, Chiara Boschetti, Manuela Caprioli, Giulio Melone, Claudia Ricci, Timothy G. Barraclough, and vectorized by T. Michael Keesey; and (Tardigrade) Michelle Site.
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