Host ecology regulates interspecies recombination in bacteria of the genus Campylobacter
E. Mourkas, K. Yahara, S. C. Bayliss, J. K. Calland, H. Johansson, L. Mageiros, Z. Y. Munoz-Ramirez, G. Futcher, G. Meric, M. D. Hitchings, S. Sandoval-Motta, J. Torres, K. A. Jolley, M. C. Maiden, P. Ellstrom, , S. K. Sheppard
The paper quantifies horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between Campylobacter species with different host ecologies, showing cohabitation in the same host increases HGT by 6-fold.
bioRxiv · Aug 24, 2021Microbiology