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Department of Molecular Biology, Kyushu University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan ...

Social media users are recycling a discredited claim that Australia's Indigenous people wiped out a pygmy population that ...

从青蛙体内发现了蛇的基因，到底是怎么回事？其实并不奇怪，这就是基因的水平转移。近年来，研究人员发现了许多基因水平转移的现象，不仅在细菌这样的原核生物身上，也在真核生物，甚至是植物和昆虫之间，都有基因的跳跃。这或许就是生存的智慧。