… conditions, resulting in major methodological challenges to the culture-based determination
of the population sizes for bacterial species in their communities and environments. …

… But outside experimental settings—that is, for most cases of lateral gene transfer in the
recent or evolutionary history of a bacterial species—actual transfer events are only rarely …

… resistance among bacteria with a variety of antibiotic. In this study an assessment of a
horizontal gene transfer among different species of bacteria by two mechanisms of gene transfer, …

… bacterial metabolic pathways or inter species interactions such as those observed in the
microbial fermentation of undigestible fibers into short chain fatty acids. However, many of these …

… (2) Phylogenetic approaches rely on the differences between genes and species tree … and
were possibly acquired by HGT transfers from other bacteria. Similarly, three phenotypically …

… bacterial species than the current definition and provide means to start replacing traditional
approaches of defining distinctive phenotypes for new species … number of genes transferred (…

… The role of HGT in bacterial speciation has been particularly well studied in the … gene
gain/gene loss has been observed to play a role in the evolution of almost every bacterial species…

… bringing about horizontal gene transfer in bacteria include transformation (… genetic material
transfer from one bacterium to the other), and conjugation (one-way genetic material transfer …

… the species L. pneumophila by analyzing horizontal gene transfer, mobile genetic elements
… nor other bacterial species for which resistance to amoeba infection has been demonstrated …

… —including horizontal gene transfer between distantly related … a bacterial species is. This
is not merely a semantic question; evolutionary theory should be able to explain why species …