… prokaryotic evolution at the species level and that treelike phylogenies are inadequate to
represent the pattern of prokaryotic evolution … prokaryotic evolution which invokes gene transfer …

… horizontal gene transfer ( Figure 6 ). Figure 6 Evolution of the Rhodobacter capsulatus gene
transfer … (a) Possible evolutionary pathway giving rise to RcGTA from a phage ancestor. The …

… for our general understanding of evolution. The only instancewhere the importance of horizontal
… of prokaryotic genes and some notablesporadic cases of apparent horizontal transfer. …

… , with the rate of gene gain and loss being comparable to the … Theoretical models of evolution
suggest that HGT is essential … evolved dedicated vehicles for gene transfer that evolved …

… -specific gene loss, particularly in parasites, but there is little doubt that horizontal gene
transfer is the other major evolutionary … between prokaryotic genomes. The archaeal genomes …

… [2, 3, 4], affecting virtually all genes [5, 6, 7], with only few genes that are resistant to it [8].
Lateral gene transfer is crucial to our understanding of microbial evolution; furthermore, as a …

… The assimilatory pathway is widespread across alldomains of life: It does not show the
patchy distribution we take as thehallmark of gene transfer. The dissimilatory pathway, on the …

… gene transfer (HGT; also known as lateral gene transfer) has had an important role in eukaryotic
genome evolution, … advanced understanding of gene transfer in prokaryotes. Recurrent …

… gene transfer and gene loss is higher than that of point mutation. What evolutionary forces
underlie the rate of lateral gene transfer … developed to explain the evolution of mutation rates …

… It is interesting to note that these three basic processes of horizontal gene transfer -
transformation. conjugation and transduction - were discovered within a few years and that, with the …