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When I asked what the difference between an icebreaker and a normal ship was, I was told that on an icebreaker the hull is filled with concrete, with holes to let the seawater transfer horizontally through the ship.
Welch et al. demonstrated that a large majority of IncA/C plasmids found in Salmonella strains were able to transfer horizontally [25].
Their potential to transfer horizontally between bacteria is however not clear.
TEs can also occasionally transfer horizontally from one species to another.
We assume that plasmids can transfer horizontally by conjugation at a rate β.
While protein families differ in their frequencies of successful transfers [ 6], most types of genes seem to be able to transfer horizontally [ 7].
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It has been long proposed that metabolic gene clusters may be transferred horizontally between organisms [ 45, 46]; however, direct experimental evidence that horizontal gene transfer maintains clustering in fungi is lacking.
MiiA modules appear to have been transferred horizontally between species co-habiting in the same niche to create their own MiiA-containing determinants.
And this, in fact, is the way evolutionary trees are constructed: Biologists use many genes that reflect the ancestry of populations and species, not the occasional gene transferred horizontally between distantly related groups.
Through conjugation, pX1.0 was able to self-transfer horizontally into an isogenic strain of E. coli as well as into two additional species belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae.
Previous studies have shown that SGI1 transfers horizontally by in trans mobilization in the presence of the IncA/C conjugative helper plasmid pR55.
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