The contribution of horizontal gene transfer to evolution has been controversial since it was
suggested to be a force driving evolution in the microbial world. In this paper, I review the …

The four disparate images shown in Figure 1 have this in common: each represents a
radical adaptation that would not have happened had lateral gene transfer (LGT), also …

It has been suggested that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the “essence of phylogeny.” In
contrast, much data suggest that this is an exaggeration resulting in part from a reliance on …

The wide spread of gene exchange and loss in the prokaryotic world has prompted the
concept of 'lateral genomics' to the point of an outright denial of the relevance of …

Microbes acquire DNA from a variety of sources. The last decades, which have seen the
development of genome sequencing, have revealed that horizontal gene transfer has been …

Horizontal gene transfer is accepted as an important evolutionary force modulating the
evolution of prokaryote genomes. However, it is thought that horizontal gene transfer plays …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT; also known as lateral gene transfer) has had an important
role in eukaryotic genome evolution, but its importance is often overshadowed by the greater …

Abstract Background Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) is beneficial to a cell if the acquired
gene confers a useful function, but is detrimental if the gene has no function, if it is …

The scope and impact of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in Bacteria and Archaea has grown
from a topic largely ignored by the microbiological community to a hot‐button issue gaining …

Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is often seen as a form of noise, obscuring the phylogenetic
signal with which we might hope to reconstruct the evolution of a group of organisms, or …