Biology's next revolution
arXiv:q-bio/0702015 · doi:10.1038/445369a
Abstract
The interpretation of recent environmental genomics data exposes the far-reaching influence of horizontal gene transfer, and is changing our basic concepts of organism, species and evolution itself.
Slightly expanded version of invited essay published in Nature. The most important addition is a complete set of references that could not be included in the published version due to space limitations and acknowledgment of the grant that supported our work