Our understanding of prokaryote biology from study of pure cultures and genome
sequencing has been limited by a pronounced sampling bias towards four bacterial phyla …

Genome comparisons indicate that horizontal gene transfer and differential gene loss are
major evolutionary phenomena that, at least in prokaryotes, involve a large fraction, if not the …

Accumulating prokaryotic gene and genome sequences reveal that the exchange of genetic
information through both homology-dependent recombination and horizontal (lateral) gene …

A theory for the evolution of cellular organization is presented. The model is based on the
(data supported) conjecture that the dynamic of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is primarily …

Not only is the number of described species a very small proportion of the estimated extant
number of taxa, but it also appears that all concepts of the extent and boundaries of 'species' …

Background The timescale of prokaryote evolution has been difficult to reconstruct because
of a limited fossil record and complexities associated with molecular clocks and deep …

The extent to which lateral genetic transfer has shaped microbial genomes has major
implications for the emergence of community structures. We have performed a rigorous …

The rapid increase in published genomic sequences for bacteria presents the first
opportunity to reconstruct evolutionary events on the scale of entire genomes. However …

Acidobacteria have been established as a novel phylum of Bacteria that is consistently
detected in many different habitats around the globe by 16S rDNA‐based molecular …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a prevalent and a highly important phenomenon in
microbial species evolution. One of the important challenges in HGT research is to better …