Premise of the study: Parasites with large geographic ranges, and different hosts in parts of their range, might acquire horizontally-transferred genes (HGTs), which might sometimes leave a footpri
a)Natural transformation assays were performed with purified DNA as donor source, except in the experiments with the various donor species and A. baylyi BD413 recipient bacteria, where supernatants of
Recent studies have suggested that plant genomes have undergone potentially rampant horizontal gene transfer (HGT), especially in the mitochondrial genome. Parasitic plants have provided the strongest
