Journal
BIOESSAYS
Volume 40, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201700242
Keywords
eukaryote genomes; horizontal gene transfer; lateral gene transfer
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Funding
- European Research Council Consolidator grant [ERC-2012-Co-616960]
- European Union's Horizon research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [704263]
- European Molecular Biology Organization long-term fellowship [ALTF-997-2015]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) postdoctoral research fellowship [PDF-487174-2016]
- Canada Research Chairs Program
- Canadian Institutes for Health Research [MOP-142349]
- NSERC [2016-016792]
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [704263] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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In a recent BioEssays paper [W. F. Martin, BioEssays 2017, 39, 1700115], William Martin sharply criticizes evolutionary interpretations that involve lateral gene transfer (LGT) into eukaryotic genomes. Most published examples of LGTs in eukaryotes, he suggests, are in fact contaminants, ancestral genes that have been lost from other extant lineages, or the result of artefactual phylogenetic inferences. Martin argues that, except for transfers that occurred from endosymbiotic organelles, eukaryote LGT is insignificant. Here, in reviewing this field, we seek to correct some of the misconceptions presented therein with regard to the evidence for LGT in eukaryotes.
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