Cockroaches tend to be thought of as the creatures that keep on living through anything, in part due to their DNA – which can code for all kinds of useful survival tricks, from neutralizing toxins to limb regeneration. Now a study led by researchers from the University of Sydney has taken a fresh look at the cockroach genome, finding something rather surprising. It seems these insects have borrowed vast amounts of DNA from an entirely different species. That species is the bacteria

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