Horizontal gene transfer can provide bacteria with new functions that confer an important competitive advantage, and is therefore likely to affect the dynamics of bacterial ecosystems. Two studies by Wolfe et al. and Bonham et al. prepare the way to study this hypothesis in a model ecosystem with reproducible properties.

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基因水平转移与生态系统功能动力学

水平基因转移可以为细菌提供赋予重要竞争优势的新功能，因此很可能影响细菌生态系统的动态。Wolfe等人的两项研究。和Bonham等。准备在具有可重现特性的模型生态系统中研究此假设的方法。