COMPLEXITY AND THE PARAGENOME. “However, we would surely be hard pressed to show that co-optation is a more effective route to evolutionary innovation than LGT. Indeed, if LGT is fully integrated into our understanding of genomic complexity, then it is perhaps the full E. coli pangenome, soon to be if not already exceeding in number of coding sequences the human genome, that should be compared with the latter.” (LGT = lateral gene transfer).
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10278.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022