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To Live and Die in the Shadows: Ferns, Survival and Horizontal Gene Transfer poster

To Live and Die in the Shadows: Ferns, Survival and Horizontal Gene Transfer

2021 6 min United States

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Overview

180 million years ago, through a chance horizontal gene transfer, ferns acquired a much needed light sensor (neochrome) that allowed them to modify and survive in low light environments. We should all be so lucky.

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