While trying to find a DNA-based test to determine the sex of lake sturgeon, Purdue University researchers found that the sturgeon genome contains trematode genes that didn't originally belong to it and may harbor a protozoan parasite that causes a sexually transmitted disease in humans.
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research ... rgeon.html
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Genes from parasite
by wolfhnd on May 11th, 2010, 4:20 pm
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