Sentences with phrase «lateral gene transfer»

They would be created through the process of lateral gene transfer, in which microbes incorporate loose bits of genetic material from other microbes into their own.

But evidence is piling up that wholesale exchanges of genetic material — called lateral gene transfers — can quickly create entirely new species.

It had been assumed that such lateral gene transfers were uncommon, but their existence in arthropods, the largest animal phylum, suggests that such transfers may be a significant evolutionary mechanism.

«This is the strongest evidence to date for lateral gene transfer,» says molecular evolutionist Ford Doolittle of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Lateral gene transfer is the...

Beyond the interest these lateral gene transfers evoke in evolutionary biology, these results highlight the risk gene transfers could cause, in case GM - parasitoid wasps are produced, as genes artificially introduced into wasp species used for biological control could be transferred into the genomes of the targeted pests.

It focused on flagging sources of uncertainty and evaluating methods of testing fitness, genetic stability and lateral gene transfer.

By extensive phylogenetic analysis, we show here that SARM is closely related to bacterial proteins with TIR domains, suggesting that this family has a different evolutionary history from other animal TIR - containing adaptors, possibly emerging via a lateral gene transfer from bacteria to animals.

New coding genes can arise in genomes through several processes, including gene duplication, gene fusion, de novo formation from non-coding DNA, or lateral gene transfer (LGT) from another species.