TY - BOOK ID - 8209728 TI - Lateral gene transfer in evolution PY - 2013 SN - 1489986618 1461477794 1461477808 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Genetic transformation KW - Evolutionary genetics KW - Recombination, Genetic KW - Genetic Processes KW - Genetic Phenomena KW - Phenomena and Processes KW - Biological Evolution KW - Gene Transfer, Horizontal KW - Biology KW - Medicine KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Pathology KW - Genetics KW - Genetic transformation. KW - Evolution. KW - Gene transfer KW - Transformation (Genetics) KW - Medicine. KW - Human genetics. KW - Evolutionary biology. KW - Microbial genetics. KW - Microbial genomics. KW - Biomedicine. KW - Human Genetics. KW - Microbial Genetics and Genomics. KW - Evolutionary Biology. KW - Philosophy KW - Creation KW - Emergence (Philosophy) KW - Teleology KW - Genetic recombination KW - Microbial genetics KW - Nucleic acids KW - Transfection KW - Evolution (Biology). KW - Animal evolution KW - Animals KW - Biological evolution KW - Darwinism KW - Evolutionary biology KW - Evolutionary science KW - Origin of species KW - Evolution KW - Biological fitness KW - Homoplasy KW - Natural selection KW - Phylogeny KW - Genomics KW - Microorganisms KW - Microbiology KW - Heredity, Human KW - Human biology KW - Physical anthropology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8209728 AB - Although the phenomenon of lateral gene transfer has been known since the 1940s, it was the genomics era that has really revealed the extent and many facets of this evolutionary/genetic phenomenon. Even in the early 2000s with but a handful of genomes available, it became clear that the nature of microorganisms is full of genetic exchange between lineages that are sometimes far apart. The years following this saw an explosion of genomic data, which shook the "tree of life" and also raised doubts about the most appropriate species concepts for prokaryotes. This book represents the manyfold contributions of LGT to the evolution of micro and, to an extent, macroorganisms by focusing on the areas where it has the largest impact: metabolic innovations and adaptations and speciation. ER -