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The Tardigrade Genome Has Been Sequenced, and It Has the Most Foreign DNA of Any Animal
Fiona Macdonald , Science Alert – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Nov 2015

25 Nov 2015 – Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the tardigrade, AKA the water bear, for the first time. And it turns out that this weird little creature has the most foreign genes of any animal studied so far – or to put it another way, roughly one-sixth of the tardigrade’s genome was stolen from other species.

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