Thermotoga heats up lateral gene transfer.
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.
Logsdon
J M
JM
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4H7, Canada.
Faguy
D M
DM
D016208:Databases, Factual; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D010802:Phylogeny; D020124:Thermotoga maritima / Q000235:genetics*