• Enkrod@feddit.de
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    6 months ago

    How is horizontal gene transfer between microbes in any way relevant to a discussion about the ancestry of chickens that only reaches back to the dinosauria clade? Chickens are invariably a sub-group of the bigger group dinosaurs.

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      6 months ago

      Not just microbes. HGT has been observed in carnivorous plants as well. It could be much more prevalent than we think.