title: Mechanisms of abiotic horizontal gene transfer: comment on "Lightning-triggered electroporation and electrofusion as possible contributors to natural horizontal gene transfer" by Tadej Kotnik.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Biophysics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: rubinsky@me.berkeley.edu.
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rubinsky
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018274:Electroporation; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D006801:Humans; D008030:Lightning