EVOLVABLE AND ADAPTABLE? “Both theoretical models and tantalizing experimental clues suggest that HGT is essential for microbial survival and could be an evolvable, adaptive capacity mediated by dedicated vehicles originating from domesticated selfish elements. Yet this concept runs afoul of the distrust of ‘evolution of evolvability’ that is deeply ingrained among biologists.” (HGT = horizontal gene transfer).
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022