Thermotoga heats up lateral gene transfer.

The complete sequence of the bacterium Thermotoga maritima genome has revealed a large fraction of genes most closely related to those of archaeal species. This adds to the accumulating evidence that lateral gene transfer is a potent evolutionary force in prokaryotes, though questions of its magnitude remain.

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Dalhousie University
Canada

Keywords

Evolution, Molecular, Databases, Factual, Thermotoga maritima, Genome, Bacterial, Phylogeny

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