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Mites as Potential Horizontal Transfer Vectors of Eukaryotic Mobile Genes: Proctolaelaps regalis as a Model

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The chapters in this volume give acarine examples of how ecological and evolutionary events have contributed to the diversification, speciation, adaptation, or coevolution observed within lineages. This chapter focuses on the issue of horizontal transfer of genes between unrelated species, an event that can lead to the rapid alteration of a genome by means of the insertion of foreign DNA. This novel source of genetic variation is independent of the usual hereditary mechanisms occurring in sexual organisms, and can result in a rapid influence on the phenotype with profound consequences for the lineage of the recipient.

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Houck, M.A. (1994). Mites as Potential Horizontal Transfer Vectors of Eukaryotic Mobile Genes: Proctolaelaps regalis as a Model. In: Houck, M.A. (eds) Mites. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2389-5_3

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