Something for everyone - Horizontal gene transfer in evolution
Author
Summary, in English
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a sensational topic largely because its exploitation to date has been primarily journalistic. Properly packaged it captures the attention of a sensitized lay public and peps up circulation. HGT provides technical challenges for academic scientists as well as market analysts. For fans of science fiction as well as for environmental pessimists, HGT is the stuff of doomsday prophecies. Interest in HGT might even be seen as a reasonable response to the recent acquisition of genome sequence data and the need to understand how genomes exchange sequences.
Department/s
Publishing year
2000
Language
English
Pages
92-95
Publication/Series
EMBO Reports
Volume
1
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Topic
- Biological Sciences
Status
Published
Research group
- Microbial Ecology
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1469-221X