ReviewProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2003
Horizontal gene transfer: a critical view.
Review in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 154 papers.
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- Old genes in new places: A taxon-rich analysis of interdomain lateral gene transfer events.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- Classes of explicit phylogenetic networks and their biological and mathematical significance.Journal of mathematical biology · 2022Review
- Horizontal Gene Transfer Involving Chloroplasts.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Mobilome Analysis ofMicroorganisms · 2021Article
- Genomic basis of environmental adaptation in the leathery sea squirt (Styela clava).Molecular ecology resources · 2020Article
- Patterns and impacts of nonvertical evolution in eukaryotes: a paradigm shift.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2020Review
- Horizontal Gene Transfer and Endophytes: An Implication for the Acquisition of Novel Traits.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Descent of Bacteria and Eukarya From an Archaeal Root of Life.Evolutionary bioinformatics online · 2020Article
- A Small Horizontally Transferred Gene Cluster Contributes to the Sporulation of Alternaria alternata.Genome biology and evolution · 2019Article
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Abstract
It has been suggested that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the "essence of phylogeny." In contrast, much data suggest that this is an exaggeration resulting in part from a reliance on inadequate methods to identify HGT events. In addition, the assumption that HGT is a ubiquitous influence throughout evolution is questionable. Instead, rampant global HGT is likely to have been relevant only to primitive genomes. In modern organisms we suggest that both the range and frequencies of HGT are constrained most often by selective barriers. As a consequence those HGT events that do occur most often have little influence on genome phylogeny. Although HGT does occur with important evolutionary consequences, classical Darwinian lineages seem to be the dominant mode of evolution for modern organisms.
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