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Thermotoga heats up lateral gene transfer
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4H7, Canada.
Current Biology : CB
|October 26, 1999
Abstract:
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.