… With all the caveats discussed above,taxonomic classification of database hits is the only
practicable method toidentify candidate horizontal gene transfer events on a genome scale. …

… of Genes Horizontally Transferred) method considers simultaneously the effect of HGT on
all sequences within groups of putative … , a putative HGT event is inferred. In addition, the …

… I review recent literature, asking, first, which processes are involved in the evolutionary …
in the face of horizontal gene transfer. Finally, I discuss how horizontal gene transfer fits in the …

… process organellar gene transfer (OGT) to distinguish it from endosymbiotic gene transfer (…
Given the difficulties and complications discussed above, it is important that putative cases of …

… horizontal gene transfer (HGT), prompting the concept of ‘lateral genomics’, which posits that
the dominant process … 41 (see more below on such putative bursts of innovation). The same …

… Interkingdom gene transfer in the literature Initially, evidence for horizontal gene transfer
between eukaryotes and prokaryotes during evolution was assessed based on an analysis of …

… cohort of 30 instances of putative gene transfer. This list is used … of 40–80 putative gene
transfers are genuine examples of … is a deceptively simple method for phylogenetic reconstruction…

… In addition, although putative gene … as lateral gene transfer, is the transfer of genetic
material outside parent–offspring inheritance. Importantly, HGT differs from the other processes …

… process we could test each approach in terms of false positive (FP, genes which the method
… of a special repository holding the genes found as HGT putative, similarly to the HGT–DB [10…

… genes (a gene tree), and compare it to a putative history of … phylogenetic method that aims
at detecting gene transfer is … of the amount of horizontal gene transfer. To overcome this …