Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the sharing of genetic material between organisms that are
not in a parent–offspring relationship. HGT is a widely recognized mechanism for adaptation …

Genomes 5 has been completely revised and updated. It is a thoroughly modern textbook
about genomes and how they are investigated. As with previous Genomes editions …

Lateral gene transfer (LGT) has significantly influenced bacterial evolution since the origins
of life. It helped bacteria generate flexible, mosaic genomes and enables individual cells to …

Inteins are mobile genetic elements capable of self-splicing post-translationally. They exist
in all three domains of life including in viruses and bacteriophage, where they have a …

Lateral gene transfer (LGT)—which transfers DNA between two non-vertically related
individuals belonging to the same or different species—is recognized as a major force in …

The three main processes sha** the evolutionary ecology of antibiotic resistance (AbR)
involve the emergence, invasion and occupation by antibiotic‐resistant genes of significant …

DNA barcoding is based on the premise that the barcode sequences can distinguish
individuals (strains) of different species because their sequence variation between species …

Eukaryotes exhibit a great diversity of cellular and subcellular morphologies, but their basic
underlying architecture is fairly constant. All have a nucleus, Golgi, cytoskeleton, plasma …

Cells have long been recognized as life's building blocks (eg, Virchow's dictum “omnis
cellula e cellula,” Virchow, 1860). Specifically, a cell's genome is considered the repository …

This paper investigates the complexity hypothesis in microbial evolutionary genetics from a
philosophical vantage. This hypothesis, in its current version, states that genes with high …