Phages associated with horses provide new insights into the dominance of lateral gene transfer in virulent bacteriophages evolution in natural systems
V. V. Babenko, A. K. Golomidova, P. A. Ivanov, M. A. Letarova, E. E. Kulikov, A. I. Manolov, N. S. Prokhorov, E. S. Kostrukova, D. M. Matyushkina, A. G. Prilipov, S. Maslov, I. S. Belalov, M. R. J. C. Clokie, A. V. Letarov
The study analyzes phage genomes from horse feces to show that recombination events dominate over point mutations in phage evolution over a 7-year period.
bioRxiv · Feb 11, 2019 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology