生物
人文学科
基因转移
图书馆学
基因
遗传学
哲学
计算机科学
作者
Vincent Daubin,Gergely J. Szöllősi
出处
期刊:Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory]
日期:2016-01-22
卷期号:8 (4): a018036-a018036
被引量:77
标识
DOI:10.1101/cshperspect.a018036
摘要
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 a major evolutionary force that has constantly reshaped genomes throughout evolution. However, because the history of life must ultimately be deduced from gene phylogenies, the lack of methods to account for horizontal gene transfer has thrown into confusion the very concept of the tree of life. As a result, many questions remain open, but emerging methodological developments promise to use information conveyed by horizontal gene transfer that remains unexploited today.
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