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BacterioFiles 263 - Germ Jettisoned Jellyfish Genes

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:08:19
Publish Date: 2016-08-15 05:00:00
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This episode: Microscopic parasites of fish and worms actually came from jellyfish-like animals, after losing most of their genome!

Download Episode (7.7 MB, 8.3 minutes) Show notes: News item Journal Paper: Chang ES, Neuhof M, Rubinstein ND, Diamant A, Philippe H, Huchon D, Cartwright P. 2015. Genomic insights into the evolutionary origin of Myxozoa within Cnidaria. Proc Natl Acad Sci 112:14912–14917.

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