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Jul 2026
Arsenophonus ghosts in bed bug genomes: multiple origins and 50 million years of persistence
It is demonstrated that non-functional symbiont-derived DNA can persist over macroevolutionary timescales and extend the study of bacterial HGT beyond the Wolbachia model and demonstrate that non-functional symbiont-derived DNA can persist over macroevolutionary timescales.
Shruti Gupta, J. Martinů, O. Balvín et al.
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