Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) refers to the transfer of genes between organisms in a manner other than traditional reproduction. Also termed lateral gene transfer (LGT), it contrasts with ...

One process by which they do this is known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT), also referred to as lateral gene transfer (LGT). In this article, we will discuss what HGT is, how it is used in research, ...

I just think the lesson is that DNA really gets around. —Nancy Moran, University of Texas at Austin If Li had been studying bacteria, finding this kind of lateral or horizontal gene transfer (HGT) ...

This horizontal gene transfer, which involves the movement of genetic material between unrelated species, played a critical role in the plants’ ability to survive outside of water. The gene ...

Subsequent studies questioned the possibility of HGT, offering alternate explanations for the presence of genes that resembled bacterial sequences, such as gene loss ... researchers have reported the ...

horizontal gene transfer. What that means is genes moving sideways across boundaries—between individuals, between species, even between kingdoms of creatures. One researcher in the 1950s dubbed ...

and enhance bacterial fitness by mediating horizontal gene transfer. Controlled phage outbreaks could potentially encourage the spread of beneficial activities, or be used to deplete resident ...

Commensal populations may therefore act as reservoirs for resistance traits that could transfer to pathogenic bacteria through horizontal gene transfer beyond the interaction with antibiotics.

Critics of agricultural biotechnology have often been dismissed as modern-day Luddites. However, these critics have an understandable concern, based on a detail of the technology that has been ...