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• culi 5y ago
  - Elevated rates of HGT in the industrialized human microbiome. Transferred gene functionality reflect the lifestyle of their hosts[0] - HGT from bacteria and plants to mycorrhizal fungi. These genes are functional[1] - More about fungi sharing genes[2][3] - Lab experiment showing HGT can act as a directional evolutionary force in bacteria adapting to antibiotics[4] - A species of fungi used HGT (mostly from bacteria and some from eukaryotes) in order to adapt to colonize apple trees[5] - A call for a replacement of neo-Darwinism with a new evolutionary synthesis that takes into account the role of HGT (among other things)[6] Ok, so I didn't save the actual paper I was paraphrasing. I thought I'd read it in Annual Reviews, but I can't seem to find it. However, I hope I provided enough sources to show that: (1) fungi often share genes across phylums, (2) we have clear examples of elevated rates of HGT in microbiota faced with a new environment, and (3) HGT can play a critical role in adaptation [0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421002415 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742... [1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2018.00701/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2018.00701... [2] https://massivesci.com/articles/fungi-gene-plants-mutualism/ https://massivesci.com/articles/fungi-gene-plants-mutualism/ [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6643240/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6643240/ [4] https://www.pnas.org/content/117/43/26868 https://www.pnas.org/content/117/43/26868 [5] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep33129 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep33129 [6] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2009.1679 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2009.167...