Lateral Gene Transfer in Evolution

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gophna, Uri (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Evolutionary biology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Evolutionary Biology.

Although the phenomenon of lateral gene transfer has been known since the 1940s, it was the genomics era that has really revealed the extent and many facets of this evolutionary/genetic phenomenon. Even in the early 2000s with but a handful of genomes available, it became clear that the nature of mi...