… among bacterial lineages since all mechanisms for gene transfer are limited by the size of
the … view of bacterial species and speciation? GENE EXCHANGE AND THE FUZZY SPECIES …

… bacterial species and speciation and argue that the Tree of Life, as most widely popularized
by Darwin (1859), is not an appropriate model for bacterial … distance gene transfers preclude …

… bacterial populations, yet allow for the separation of these populations upon bacterial speciation…
, horizontally transferred genes may initiate ecological barriers to genetic exchange. The …

… To determine how horizontally acquired genes are able to accurately define bacterial species,
we need to trace the phylogenetic history of genes that occur sporadically among multiple …

… all genes currently known to be involved in this part of intermediary metabolism, except minor
species … gene transfer in bacterial populations, Finally, this raises a more general question …

… rate of successful gene transfer varies among bacterial lineages. … amount of genetic headroom
intrinsic to a bacterial species. … lateral gene transfer as the catalyst for Bacterial speciation. …

… 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 species …

… times similar to those determined in other bacterial species, our molecular clock estimates
support … pseudomallei and adds this species to the growing list of bacterial species in which …

… of genetic information between related bacterial species, but until recently, only in antibiotic
resistance plasm ids (R-factors) was there good evidence of pro miscuous gene transfer (…

… eukaryotes, genetic exchange between bacterial species does … Indeed, bacterial species
that exchange genes are free to … species is open to gene transfers from many taxa, even those …