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<p>This episode: Gene transfers between viruses and eukaryotes have happened many times throughout evolutionary history!</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/bacteriofiles/BF481.mp3">Download Episode</a></span> (7.5 MB, 10.9 minutes)<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Show notes:</span><br /> Microbe of the episode: <em>Mycoplasma subdolum</em></p> <p><a href= "https://phys.org/news/2022-01-gene-exchange-viruses-hosts-evolution.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News item</a></p> <div><strong>Takeaways</strong></div> <div> <div> <div> <div>As we've all seen recently, viruses can cause a lot of trouble. Their biology requires them to be parasites inside the cells of their hosts, and they can cause devastating disease, so it's hard to think of them as having played important roles in the development of life on Earth, including our own evolution.<br /> <br /> However, this study found thousands of apparent historical transfers of genes f...