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The Bdelloid Rotifer A. vaga

Caption: A laboratory culture of the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga. Rotifers may be able to incorporate DNA from other species into their genomes during the desiccation and rehydration phases of their life cycle.

Credit: Eugene Gladyshev

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