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I'm well aware of horizontal gene transfer, but thanks for linking it anyways for the people who don't know.

Edit: My response was lacking, apologies. AFAIK, there's never been a horizontal gene transfer from a prokaryote/eukaryote/any other kingdom to a mammal or animal. The last time may be when we got mitocondria.



bacteria to jellyfish (not proven) http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080928/full/news.2008.1134.h...

Now I have some prions to go BBQ.


> AFAIK, there's never been a horizontal gene transfer from a prokaryote/eukaryote/any other kingdom to a mammal or animal.

contradicts

> The last time may be when we got mitocondria.

Also, we seem to have quite a bit of bacterial and virus DNA that somehow got incorporated.

Oh, and it's mitochondria.


When we got mitochondria, we weren't mammals yet. ;) Apologies for spelling.




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