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    • Functional Biogeography as Evidence of Gene Transfer in Hypersaline Microbial Communities 

      J. Jacob Parnell; Giovanni Rompato; Leigh C. Latta IV; Michael E. Pfrender; Joy D. Van Nostrand; Zhili He; Jizhong Zhou; Gary Andersen; Patti Champine; Balasubramanian Ganesan; Bart C. Weimer (PLos One, 2010-09-23)
      BackgroundHorizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a major role in speciation and evolution of bacteria and archaea by controlling gene distribution within an environment. However, information that links HGT to a natural ...