Category: horizontal gene transfer
Hundreds of types of bacteria in 4 million-year-old cave can fight off antibiotics
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by News under horizontal gene transfer, News |
“Many microbiologists therefore suspect that nonpathogenic bacteria are acting as a vast pool of ancient resistance genes waiting to be transferred to pathogenic bacteria.” more
Darwinists try to come to terms with horizontal gene transfer
| April 9, 2012 | Posted by News under horizontal gene transfer, News |
Where bacteria mutate simply by sharing genes, not by Darwinian struggle, survival of the fittest, etc. more
Horizontal gene transfer: Gene from bacteria lets beetle feed only on coffee beans
| February 29, 2012 | Posted by News under horizontal gene transfer, News |
Non-Darwinian evolution: “Cases of ecologically significant HGT in eukaryotes are starting to pile up, …” more
So evolution can happen, only it’s not Darwinism?
| February 18, 2012 | Posted by News under horizontal gene transfer, News |
“There is no host-parasite relationship between these plants, which is usually when we see this kind of gene movement.” more
Horizontal gene transfer: Whole chloroplasts move between species; how they do it unclear as yet – researchers
| February 2, 2012 | Posted by News under horizontal gene transfer, News |
Another surprising discovery in non-Darwinian evolution. more
Horizontal gene transfer? Sea slug incorporates algae’s chlorophyll factories
| January 22, 2012 | Posted by News under horizontal gene transfer, News |
Just how the slugs make the genetics work remains unclear. more
Horizontal gene transfer: Massive network of recent gene exchange connects bacteria from around the world?
| November 3, 2011 | Posted by News under horizontal gene transfer, News |
“HGT is an ancient method for bacteria from different lineages to acquire and share useful genetic information they didn’t inherit from their parents.” more
Ancient bacteria resisted antibiotics they’d never met – jumping genes implicated
| September 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Ecology, horizontal gene transfer, News |
In “Antibiotic resistance found in ancient bacteria” (CBC News, Aug 31, 2011), Emily Chung reports, The same genes that make disease-causing bacteria resistant to today’s antibiotics have been found in soil bacteria that have remained frozen since woolly mammoths roamed the Earth. “We’ve shown for the first time that drug resistance is a really old… more