… We then discuss the numerous methods used to detect HGT in bacterial genomes as well
as the approaches and underlying theory used to infer the selective forces acting on …

… impact of plasmids goes above and beyond their being mere gene delivery platforms. … in
the bacterial genome. As a consequence, the evolution of plasmid-encoded genes is governed …

… on the extent of lateral gene transfer in the evolution of S. enterica as studied by genomic
subtraction. … Phylogenetics and the amelioration of bacterial genomes. In E C. NEIDHARDT, …

… In order to understand the impact of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) on microbial evolution, …
analyses of microbial genomes have shown that a large number of genes in a genome have …

… Over the last two decades, the accumulation of prokaryote gene and genome sequences
has changed our understanding of how bacterial genomes evolve. Our view of bacteria has …

… Bacterial genomes often contain mobile genetic elements such as plasmids. When a gene
for cooperative behavior exists on a plasmid, cheaters can be forced to cooperate by infection …

… Reticulate models of evolutionary history that incorporate gene transfer might even provide
… lineage reticulation are supplemented by horizontal gene transfer (HGT) as processes that …

… Although horizontal gene transfer shapes bacterial genomes 2,3 , most large-scale analyses
have ignored its influence on the evolution of biological networks. Theoretical models 1 and …

… , bacterial genomes also harbour a variable number of accessory genes acquired by
horizontal gene transfer that encode adaptative traits that might be beneficial for bacteria under …

… of the homologs of a given gene (7, 30, … gene in all or nearly all sequenced bacterial genomes
but in only one archaeon) suggest that there has been HGT (in this case from a bacterium …