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Comment
. 2016 May 31;113(22):E3057.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1602711113. Epub 2016 May 12.

No evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade

Kazuharu Arakawa  1
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No evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade

Kazuharu Arakawa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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