The Pivotal Role of Bryophytes in Plant Evolution. Scientists have long been interested in how plants transitioned from water to land, but much of the focus has historically been on flowering ...

ABOVE: A whitefly feeds on a leaf JIXING XIA AND ZHAOJIANG GUO. I n the first known example of horizontal gene transfer between a plant and an animal, a common pest known as the whitefly (Bemisia ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the transfer of genetic material between distinct species, a process that plays a major role in the evolution of a genome. There is an increasing body of evidence for ...

Our new study is the first to show that lateral gene transfer is widespread in this important plant group, and it occurs in wild and cultivated species alike. Our discovery is based on genetic ...

Tracking gene flow in marine plant evolution. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 12 / 121210112440.htm. Springer.

Horizontal gene transfer introduces into an organism genes that were not vertically transmitted from the parent organism, and therefore has the potential to interfere with phylogenetic analyses.

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

Reading the genome and understanding evolution: Symbioses and gene transfer in leaf beetles. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250117112030.htm ...

Among the vegetable world’s most incorrigible villains, the whitefly ranks high. Pale, squishy, and smaller than a sesame seed, these sap-sucking bugs terrorize more than 600 plant species ...

The transfer of genetic material between non-mating species, known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT), has attracted growing attention as a powerful mechanism for genetic evolution. While common in ...