"Horizontal" or "lateral" genetic transfer is probably as old as life itself.
I literally am like the genetic transfer between Ann Richards and Lily Adams.
Stagnant waters encourage their growth, and biofilms foster genetic transfer between organisms — resistant genes become more widespread among organisms surviving in the pipes.
If we can eliminate mitochondrial disease with genetic transfer, won't people with other genetic diseases want us to spare their future children?
In this manner, genetic transfer becomes communication in information space with its own forms of ambiguities, implicates and future explicates.
It is expected that the MFEA will automatically harness the available synergies by the process of implicit genetic transfer, thereby providing a significant impetus to the evolutionary search.
Biofilms are unique multicellular constructions of bacteria from one or several species, in which horizontal genetic transfer may occur easily, thus facilitating crossbreeding of resistance genes.
Evolutionary multitasking has recently emerged as an effective means of facilitating implicit genetic transfer across different optimization tasks, thereby potentially accelerating convergence characteristics for multiple tasks at once.
Note that for implicit genetic transfer to take place efficiently, it is crucial to have an effective unified search space encompassing all the constitutive tasks.
However, the occurrence of few mismatches suggests that sometimes TTSS-like genes might have undergone horizontal genetic transfer.
Genetic transfer in biofilms--with its relevance to the transfer of antibiotic resistance--is an example of important phenomena that have received little attention from mathematical modelers.
