![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081106232500im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field One Species' Entire Genome Discovered Inside Another's
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August 30, 2007
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Scientists at the University of Rochester and the J. Craig Venter Institute have discovered a copy of the entire genome of a bacterial parasite residing inside the genome of its host species. The finding, reported in today's Science, suggests that lateral gene transfer--the movement of genes between unrelated species--may happen much more frequently between bacteria and multicellular organisms than scientists previously believed, posing dramatic implications for evolution.
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