MicrobiologybioRxiv
Host ecology regulates interspecies recombination in bacteria of the genus Campylobacter
E. Mourkas, K. Yahara, S. C. Bayliss…·S. K. Sheppard
The paper quantifies horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between Campylobacter species with different host ecologies, showing cohabitation in the same host increases HGT by 6-fold.
DOI 10.7554/elife.73552