To Live and Die in the Shadows: Ferns, Survival and Horizontal Gene Transfer poster

To Live and Die in the Shadows: Ferns, Survival and Horizontal Gene Transfer (2021)

Year: 2021
Genres: Documentary
Countries: United States of America
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Runtime: 6 min

Name: To Live and Die in the Shadows: Ferns, Survival and Horizontal Gene Transfer
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021

180 million years ago, through a chance horizontal gene transfer, ferns acquired a much needed light sensor (neochrome) that allowed them to modify and survive in low light environments. We should all be so lucky.