OPERATIONAL VS INFORMATIONAL. “In prokaryotes, horizontally acquired genes tend to be operational, typically encoding enzymes, rather than informational, that is, genes involved in transcription and translation. It has recently been suggested that network connectivity is a more important consideration than function, but nevertheless most identified foreign genes are concerned with metabolism.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022