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Summary: Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic algal evolution
Jason Raymond and Robert E. Blankenship*
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1604
A
lthough seemingly innocuous,
the power of something as sim-
ple as a drop of water, given a
few millions of years over
which to act continually, is immediately
and awe-inspiringly obvious to someone
peering over the edge of the Grand
Canyon. Acting over a similarly im-
mense time period but on vastly differ-
ent scales, this massive effect from a
weak, but constant, force embodies how
natural selection has been able to direct
the evolution of once primitive, mal-
adapted biological structures to the re-
markable and almost inconceivably di-
verse molecular machines found within
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