Horizontal Gene Transfer
Gary Olsen with Carl Woese (both at UI): Explore LGT to estimate the frequency of recent gene transfers to diverse microbial lineages; ...
Horizontal gene transfer: Transmission of DNA between species, involving close contact between the donor's DNA and the recipient, uptake of DNA by the recipient, and stable incorporation of the DNA into the recipient's genome.
Horizontal gene transfer The passing of pieces of DNA (plasmids) between species that provide a selective advantage in particular environments.
[edit] Horizontal gene transfer, and the history of life
The ancestry of living organisms has traditionally been reconstructed from morphology, ...
Horizontal gene transfer is a mechanism by which an alien gene from a source "organism X," moves into, or is taken into, a given cell and is somehow incorporated into the genetic complement of the cell.
A region of a bacterial chromosome that seems to have been acquired via horizontal gene transfer and includes a group of genes encoding virulence factors.
This suggests that there is a significant level of "gene sharing" between bacterial species; this is called horizontal gene transfer.
The identification of similar sequences (including many genes) in two distantly related organisms, but not in other members of one of the clades, has led to the theory that these sequences were acquired by horizontal gene transfer.
 See also: Gene transfer, Trans, Organ, Gene, Biology
  
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