title: Genetic exchange between kingdoms.
abstract: Bacterial conjugation with two evolutionarily divergent yeasts has been observed in the laboratory. Whether such trans-kingdom conjugation events, other than the well known Agrobacterium-plant cell interaction, actually occur in nature is not known. However, a few putative events have recently been uncovered by gene (or protein) sequence analysis, suggesting that horizontal gene transfer between phylogenetic kingdoms may be a real phenomenon.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403.
authors.forename: G F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Sprague
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003227:Conjugation, Genetic; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D010957:Plasmids; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000235:genetics*; D013045:Species Specificity; D013559:Symbiosis
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial