/sci/ - Science & Math

Let's have a thread dedicated to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles. Post links to .pdf's, DOI's, etc. Screenshots of the article are welcome too. Maybe give a short summary of it.

Any STEM field goes. Psychology and Economics are also both welcome if it's not an opinion piece.

I'll start off with my favorite that I've read this week:

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3120157/Massive_Horizontal_Science_May302008.pdf

"Horizontal gene transfer in metazoans has been documented in only a few species and is usually
associated with endosymbiosis or parasitism. By contrast, in bdelloid rotifers we found many genes
that appear to have originated in bacteria, fungi, and plants, concentrated in telomeric regions
along with diverse mobile genetic elements. Bdelloid proximal gene-rich regions, however,
appeared to lack foreign genes, thereby resembling those of model metazoan organisms. Some of
the foreign genes were defective, whereas others were intact and transcribed; some of the latter
contained functional spliceosomal introns. One such gene, apparently of bacterial origin, was
overexpressed in
Escherichia coli
and yielded an active enzyme. The capture and functional
assimilation of exogenous genes may represent an important force in bdelloid evolution."

So basically
>horizontal gene transfer in a metazoan, which isn't unheard of but pretty surprising
>plant genes, bacterial genes found
>fucking plant genes
>fucking bacteria genes, some even still intron-free.

Pic unrelated to the article, but this is a bdelloid rotifer