Horizontal gene transfer, genome innovation and evolution

By J. Peter Gogarten, Jeffrey P. Townsend. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2005

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PhyloPhlAn is a new method for improved phylogenetic and taxonomic placement of microbes (2013, background): “Finally, between both genome sets, 71 of 445 genomes lacking detailed taxonomy are very confidently refined, resulting in the red (corrections), green (refinements), and blue (flags) annotations in Figure 1 and the complete list of taxonomic corrections in Supplementary Data 3.”
PathogenFinder - Distinguishing Friend from Foe Using Bacterial Whole Genome Sequence Data (2013, background): “The existence of diseases caused by bacteria that cannot grow in pure culture medium [4,5], the discovery of polymicrobial diseases [6], the role of metagenomic microbiota in chronic diseases [7], and last but not least, the discovery of Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) responsible for the swapping of”
The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution (2011, background): “No other discovery has caused so much controversy and (sometimes acrimonious) debate, during which opposite views of HGT have been expounded, from assertions of its rampant occurrence and overarching role in the evolution of bacteria and archaea to the denial of any substantial contribution of HGT (”
Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world (2008, background): “Multiple archaeo-bacterial gene transfers have been supported by genome-wide phylogenetic analysis as well (191,192).”
Size doesn’t matter: towards a more inclusive philosophy of biology (2007, background): “…evolutionary genomics have raised enormous problems for the dominant eukaryo-centric paradigm of vertical inheritance and mutation-driven species divisions that give rise to a single tree of life (Doolittle 2002, 1999; Stahl and Tiedje 2002; Gogarten and Townsend 2005; O’Malley and Boucher 2005).”
Microbiology and the species problem (2010, background): “What about the process of recombination: do most groups of prokaryotes called ‘species’ have genomes that can successfully recombine? Again, empirical results suggest that the answer is no ( Gogarten and Townsend 2005, 684; Achtman and Wagner 2008: 435; Doolittle and Zhaxybayeva 2009: 753).”