Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Genomic signatures of recombination in a natural population of the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

  • Olga A. Vakhrusheva,
  • Elena A. Mnatsakanova,
  • Yan R. Galimov,
  • Tatiana V. Neretina,
  • Evgeny S. Gerasimov,
  • Sergey A. Naumenko,
  • Svetlana G. Ozerova,
  • Arthur O. Zalevsky,
  • Irina A. Yushenova,
  • Fernando Rodriguez,
  • Irina R. Arkhipova,
  • Aleksey A. Penin,
  • Maria D. Logacheva,
  • Georgii A. Bazykin,
  • Alexey S. Kondrashov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19614-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Ancient, asexual lineages are rare as a lack of recombination is usually an evolutionary dead end. Here, authors compare complete genomes of 11 individual bdelloid rotifers that suggest evidence of regular genetic exchange between individuals in a species that was previously thought to be asexual.