Abiotic Gene Transfer: Rare or Rampant?

Physical methods for genetic transformation of fungi and yeast

(2014) Ana Leonor Rivera et al.   Physics of Life Reviews

A novel and highly efficient method for genetic transformation of fungi employing shock waves

(2013) Denis Magaña-Ortíz et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Estimating the contribution of lightning to microbial evolution: Guidance from the Drake equation

(2013) James C. Weaver   Physics of Life Reviews

Lightning-triggered electroporation and electrofusion as possible contributors to natural horizontal gene transfer

(2013) Tadej Kotnik   Physics of Life Reviews

Prokaryotic diversity, electrified DNA, lightning waveforms, abiotic gene transfer, and the Drake equation: Assessing the hypothesis of lightning-driven evolution

(2013) Tadej Kotnik   Physics of Life Reviews

Bacterial natural transformation by highly fragmented and damaged DNA

(2013) S. Overballe-Petersen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Understanding Bacteriophage Specificity in Natural Microbial Communities

(2013) Britt Koskella et al.   Viruses-Basel

Evolutionary Implications of Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2012) Michael Syvanen   Annual Review of Genetics

Low Species Barriers in Halophilic Archaea and the Formation of Recombinant Hybrids

(2012) Adit Naor et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolution of Conjugation and Type IV Secretion Systems

(2012) Julien Guglielmini et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Gene transfer agents: phage-like elements of genetic exchange

(2012) Andrew S. Lang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Natural Competence in the Hyperthermophilic ArchaeonPyrococcus furiosusFacilitates Genetic Manipulation: Construction of Markerless Deletions of Genes Encoding the Two Cytoplasmic Hydrogenases

(2011) Gina L. Lipscomb et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Intercellular Nanotubes Mediate Bacterial Communication

(2011) Gyanendra P. Dubey et al.   CELL

Enhanced Shock Wave-Assisted Transformation of Escherichia coli

(2011) Achim M. Loske et al.   ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

High Frequency of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Oceans

(2010) L. D. McDaniel et al.   SCIENCE

Methodologies to increase the transformation efficiencies and the range of bacteria that can be transformed

(2009) Trond Erik Vee Aune et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

(2009) Eric Bapteste et al.   Biology Direct

Darwinian evolution in the light of genomics

(2009) E. V. Koonin   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Network analyses structure genetic diversity in independent genetic worlds

(2009) S. Halary et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Horizontal gene transfer in evolution: facts and challenges

(2009) L. Boto   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

New dimensions of the virus world discovered through metagenomics

(2009) David M. Kristensen et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Temporal evolution of decaying summer first-year sea ice in the Western Weddell Sea, Antarctica

(2008) J.-L. Tison et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

(2008) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The influence of single-pulse and tandem shock waves on bacteria

(2008) Ulises M. Álvarez et al.   SHOCK WAVES