Biased gene transfer mimics patterns created through shared ancestry.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Jun 8; 107(23):10679-84
Yuri Wolf
17 Jun 2010
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Controversial, Interesting Hypothesis, New Finding
The paper by Andam et al. explores the evolutionary history of bacterial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases. The authors attempt to solve one of the fundamental problems in bacterial phylogenomics: whether the apparently consistent bacterial taxonomy can be created and maintained by biased horizontal gene transfer (HGT) or whether it is necessarily...
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