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If Bacterial Sequences in the Human Genome Represent Horizontal Transfer

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If bacterial sequences in the human genome represent horizontal transfer, the transfer may have occurred in early humans, or in the more distant past, in primate ancestors of humans. In the latter scenario, modern humans inherited such sequences from a common ancestor. Can you think of a way to test the hypothesis that bacterial sequences were vectored to humans vs. vectored to an ancestral primate?


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