Tag Archives: horizontal gene transfer

One of these things is not like the other……

Posted on 22 Apr, 2016 by Kelle Freel

While we know that bacteria are pretty scandalous with their DNA, not minding horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and such (which can be pretty confounding when trying to discuss species concepts), and although it’s clear that this kind of genetic material … Continue reading →

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To sequence a genome or not to sequence a genome, that is the question

Posted on 16 Mar, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

In a paper out last month in the Journal of Phycology, Bhattacharya et al. (2015) provide a perspective on the need for more algal genomes. [A] relevant question on the minds of many phycologists might be: do we really need more algal … Continue reading →

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