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SUMMARY:Speciation\, horizontal transfer and the evolutionary genomics of 
 bdelloid rotifers - Tim Barraclough (Imperial College London)
DTSTART:20190212T130000Z
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CONTACT:Chris Jiggins
DESCRIPTION:Bdelloid rotifers are tiny animals that challenge conventional
  notions of how animals evolve. They appear to have been strictly asexual 
 for 50 millions of years\, and yet have diversified into many hundreds of 
 species. They have also taken up orders of magnitude more DNA by horizonta
 l transfer than found in other animals. I describe our work investigating 
 the evolutionary consequences of bdelloids’ unusual life-style\, and tes
 ting whether unusual mechanisms such as horizontal transfer might explain 
 how they have prospered without the evolutionary benefits of sexual reprod
 uction. In particular\, I describe our recent results from comparative and
  population genomics. \n\n
LOCATION:Part II Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology \, Downing Street
 \, CB2 3EJ
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