Definition of horizontal gene transfer in English:
horizontal gene transfer
noun
mass noun
The acquisition by an organism of genetic information by transfer, for example via the agency of a virus, from an organism that is not its parent and is typically a member of a different species.
水平基因转移
Example sentencesExamples
Due to recombination and horizontal gene transfer, multiple sources may contribute to a single gene.
For genes that are present in only a few species, it is a priori more difficult to discriminate between horizontal gene transfer to multiple species and extensive loss of the gene in many lineages.
High rates of gene acquisition and loss and horizontal gene transfer make the discrimination between orthologs and paralogs extremely difficult in this data set.
The past decade has produced an increasing number of reports on horizontal gene transfer between prokaryotic organisms.
Another source of variation in codon usage is horizontal gene transfer, as the transferred genes tend to have a codon usage different from that of the host organism.