title: Estimating the contribution of lightning to microbial evolution: guidance from the Drake equation: comment on "Lightning-triggered electroporation and electrofusion as possible contributors to natural horizontal gene transfer" by Tadej Kotnik.
authors: Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: jcw@mit.edu.
authors: James C
authors: JC
authors: Weaver
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018274:Electroporation; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D006801:Humans; D008030:Lightning
keywords: Drake equation; Electroporation; Evolution; Gene transfer; Lightning; Prokaryote