title: Prokaryotic diversity, electrified DNA, lightning waveforms, abiotic gene transfer, and the Drake equation: assessing the hypothesis of lightning-driven evolution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Tržaška 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Electronic address: tadej.kotnik@fe.uni-lj.si.
authors.forename: Tadej
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kotnik
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018274:Electroporation; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D006801:Humans; D008030:Lightning
keywords: Drake equation; Electrotransformation; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Lightnings