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EXTREMOPHILE HGT. "Approximately one-sixth of the genes in the tardigrade genome were found to have been acquired through horizontal transfer, a proportion nearly double the proportion of previous known cases of extreme horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in animals." https://lnkd.in/epvRixb View in LinkedIn

SINGLE STRAND DNA IMPORTS. "Generally, competent bacteria can translocate chromosomal DNA fragments, plasmids or phage DNA across their membrane(s). The actual translocation process varies among taxa, but usually involves the transfer of single DNA strands." https://lnkd.in/eXE-r93 View in LinkedIn

NO FAMILY UNTOUCHED. "The results of a network analysis of shared genes agree with the idea that horizontal gene transfer leaves no gene family untouched." https://lnkd.in/eVQ_4UY View in LinkedIn

PARTNER GOVERNED. "It has been shown that the integration of a single transferred gene into regulatory interaction networks is very slow. In the case of genes providing the receptor with new functions...it is dependent on the number of partners for the gene product in the regulatory network...products of these genes are integrated in the periphery of the corresponding regulatory network. On the other hand, transferred genes codifying for products with few partners are more easily deleted from genomes." https://lnkd.in/eVQ_4UY View in LinkedIn

SUPERGENOME. "Both the size and composition of the gene pool available to be incorporated into the genome of an organism by HGT, also known as its ‘supergenome’, are dependent on the environment it inhabits." https://lnkd.in/eXE-r93 View in LinkedIn

GENE SUPER-HIGHWAYS. "The preferential exchange of genetic material among species inhabiting the same environments may lead to the emergence of assemblages of species or communities which become bound together not only through adaptation to similar conditions but also through access and sharing of an almost common gene pool." https://lnkd.in/eXE-r93 View in LinkedIn

GENE ECOSYSTEMS. "Different environments determine which assemblages can donate/receive genes from other members thus creating special groups or exchange communities. Also, the type of genes laterally transferred among members of such communities might be different because of the disparate selective advantages resulting from the transfer of specific genes in different environments." https://lnkd.in/eXE-r93 View in LinkedIn

VIRAL TRANSFER OF GENES. "It becomes more appreciated that not only bacterial but also viral genes might be involved in transferring morphological and metabolic traits. Indeed, it has been suggested that ‘. . . viruses rather than bacteria massively explore sequence space’." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00539.x/full View in LinkedIn

MODULAR IMPORTS. "Shuffling of genes among MGEs is facilitated by several factors. First, most elements are organized in a highly modular fashion. Modularity and recombination also play a major role in phage evolution and recombination across MGEs of different types, via the exchange of modules or the co-integration of an element within another, is a common phenomenon." (MGE, Mobile Genetic Elements). https://lnkd.in/eXE-r93 View in LinkedIn

VIRAL PARENTS. "‘Virio-Darwinism’ might explain evolutionary changes and inventions, which would be hard to explain otherwise. Indeed, viruses seem to be involved in major evolutionary inventions such as the origin of mammals or eukaryotes." https://lnkd.in/ehNRjAC View in LinkedIn