Darwin's tree of life, by which many of us see ... science has discovered over the past couple of generations. Horizontal gene transfer or HGT - genetic matter we don't inherit but acquire ...

As a further argument, Ford pointed out that a recently-published tree of life that was based on proteins that hadn't undergone horizontal gene transfer was built using only 31 proteins.

Genetic studies have made it clear that eukaryotic horizontal gene transfer can and does happen ... Now, Rokas says, he thinks that DNA is not only moving around the tree of life, but it’s moving a ...

A new study proves that a type of genetic element called 'introners' is the mechanism by which many introns spread within and ...

DNA is the genetic code that provides the biological instructions for every living species, but not every bit of DNA helps ...

Large-scale comparison of gene families across 1154 Saccharomycotina genomes revealed that gene gains and losses drive yeast ...

DNA holds the code for building life, but not all of it is useful. Some parts behave more like parasites, sticking around ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) refers to the transfer of genes between organisms in a manner other than traditional reproduction. Also termed lateral gene transfer (LGT), it contrasts with ...

The discovery of a hot spot for horizontal gene transfer draws attention to the possible roles ... that bacteria form a web of related life rather than a branching family tree. The cells of eukaryotic ...

One process by which they do this is known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT), also referred to as lateral gene transfer (LGT). In this article, we will discuss what HGT is, how it is used in research, ...

2. Describe why horizontal gene transfer can more quickly disseminate antimicrobial resistance 3. Understand how long read and short read sequencing may be needed to describe the genetic context of ...

This horizontal gene transfer allowed maternal microbial strains to influence the functional capacity of the infant microbiome, in the absence of persistent transmission of the microbial strains ...