Genome sequencing has revealed that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major
evolutionary process in bacteria. Although it is generally assumed that closely related …

Cultivated common beans are the primary protein source for millions of people around the
world who subsist on low‐input agriculture, enabled by the symbiotic N2‐fixation these …

Integrons confer a rapid adaptation capability to bacteria. Integron integrases are able to
capture and shuffle novel functions embedded in cassettes. Here, we investigated cassette …

Laboratories often receive clinical isolates for bacterial identification that have ambiguous
biochemical profiles by conventional testing. With the emergence of 16S rRNA gene …

Living organisms interact with each other during their lifetime, leading to genomes
rearrangement and sequences transfer. These well-known phenomena give these …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is thought to occur frequently in bacteria in nature and to play
an important role in bacterial evolution, contributing to the formation of new species. To gain …

We argue that the logical outcome of the cladistics revolution in biological systematics, and
the move towards rankless phylogenetic classification of nested monophyletic groups as …

Population and evolutionary genetic theory shows that asexual organisms can undergo
speciation to form inclusive populations that are independent arenas for the evolutionary …

Phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary relatedness among groups of organisms.
Molecular phylogenetics uses sequence data to infer these relationships for both organisms …