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Biology's next revolution
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.Comment: 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 wor
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