DOMINANT PROCESS. “There is no reasonable doubt anymore that HGT is a dominant process in microbial evolution that generally occurs at a high rate. Moreover, the relevance of ‘horizontal’ as applied to gene flow is validated by the strong evidence of the existence of a central vertical, tree-like trend in genome evolution.” (HGT = horizontal gene transfer).
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022