Aug 05
An entire bacterial genome discovered inside that of a fruit fly
Ed Yong at his Not Exactly Rocket Science blog wrote…
Julie Dunning-Hotopp from the J. Craig Venter Institute and Michael Clark from the University of Rochester have found a drastic strategy used by Wolbachia to preserve its own immortality - inserting its entire genome wholesale into that of another living thing.
Click here to read the exciting article.