Horizontal gene transfer: building the web of life

2015/07/17 by Shannon M. Soucy, Jinling Huang, Johann Peter Gogarten +1 · 5 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Adaptation (eye) #Archaea #Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology #Bacteriophages and microbial interactions #Biology #CRISPR and Genetic Engineering #Context (archaeology) #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetics #Genome #Horizontal gene transfer #Mechanism (biology) #Microbiome #Multicellular organism

paper · doi:10.1038/nrg3962

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• The genome of cultivated sweet potato contains Agrobacterium T-DNAs with expressed genes: An example of a naturally transgenic food crop
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