GLOBAL DNA POOL. “In the theory of genetic mosaicism, dsDNA phages have access to the global phage DNA pool by lateral gene transfer. This access is not uniform, e.g. because of host range barriers, thus representing ‘…a sort of random walk through phylogenetic space’.”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00539.x/full
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Nigel Fleming
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