Adaptive evolution of hybrid bacteria by horizontal gene transfer
J. J. Power, F. Pinheiro, S. Pompei, V. Kovacova, M. Yuksel, I. Rathmann, M. Forster, M. Lassig, B. Maier
This study shows that horizontal gene transfer rapidly generates adaptive hybrid bacteria with genomic and functional changes in a parallel evolution experiment.
bioRxiv · Apr 23, 2020Evolutionary Biology