… genomes through the process of horizontal transfer. Through the introduction of novel … gene
transfer often causes drastic changes in the ecological and pathogenic character of bacterial …

… bacterial evolution at least since the origins of the bacterial divisions, and HGT still facilitates
the origins of bacterial diversity, including diversity … of genetic exchange in bacteria such as …

… the unique distribution of bacterial communities in northern South … bacterial diversity.
Cyanobacteria, Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Bacteroidetes constitute the majority of bacteria. …

… the remarkable extent of horizontal gene transfer (HGT), and it is … HGT involves all transfers
of genetic material from one cell to … strongly depend on how bacterial diversity is sampled, as …

… gene transfer (LGT) events within and between lineages. Here, we show that acquisition and
retention of genes through LGT are exceedingly rare in the bacterial … bacterial diversity. Our …

… Lederberg and EM Tatum discovered genetic recombination in bacteria through the … of
bacteria with the result that we now understand mechanistic features of diverse transformation, …

… adaptability and diversity. In view of the use of GM crops and microbes in agricultural …
and role of MGE in soil and plant-associated bacteria and the factors affecting gene transfer. …

… gene transfer (LGT) among lineages at virtually all phylogenetic levels. In most bacterial
genomes, large proportions of genes … history of every gene in numerous bacterial genomes, we …

… Here we develop a model, with special reference to signal transduction cascades of bacteria,
which predicts that in the face of ecological opportunity and lateral gene transfer, selection …

… analyses, by the ambiguous identification of orthologues among diverse gene … gene transfers
(exemplified quite dramatically by the apparently premature claim that hundreds of genes …