{
  "id": 14052859,
  "title": "Horizontal transfers can reveal ghost birth events and complete species trees",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/horizontal-transfers-can-reveal-ghost-birth-events-and-complete",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.12.758438v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Extinct and unsampled species vastly outnumber the species typically included in phylogenetic studies. Most of these so-called ``ghost lineages'' are unknown and, among them, those that are extinct may have left no trace in the fossil record. Horizontal gene transfers (HGTs), however, provide a potential source of information about these missing lineages, because transfers can connect sampled…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}