Central Eukaryotic defense components, including plant NLRs, might have been domesticated after HGT from bacteria!
Ignacio_Rubio-Somoza
Bacterial immune proteins have repeatedly evolved to become parts of eukaryotic immunity. But how?
Our new preprint uncovers a recent horizontal transfer event & shows how eukaryotes co-opted a toxic bacterial immune protein 🦠🧪🧵 1/
