Monitoring and modeling horizontal gene transfer
Nielsen KM, Townsend JP. Monitoring and modeling horizontal gene transfer. Nature Biotechnology 2004, 22: 1110-1114. PMID: 15340481, DOI: 10.1038/nbt1006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHorizontal gene transfer eventsPopulation genetic approachesGene transfer eventsStrength of selectionHorizontal gene transferPopulation genetic modelsWild-type bacteriaLarge bacterial populationsHGT hypothesisBacterial generation timesHGT eventsTransgenic plantsGenetic approachesBacterial communitiesBacterial transformantsBacterial populationsPopulation sizeCurrent monitoring effortsGene transferTransfer eventsYears of growthGeneration timeGenetic modelsBacteriaTime of sampling