1. Convergent Evolution: Gene Sharing by Eukaryotic Plant Pathogens
Jan O. Andersson 
Current Biology 
Volume 16, Issue 18, Pages R804-R806 (September 2006)
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2. Figure 1 Gene sharing within and between the three domains of life.
Lateral gene transfer is thought to have played a major part in the genome evolution of Bacteria and Archaea, and genes are shared both within and between the two domains (grey arrows) [2,3]. Eukaryotic organisms were thought to be resistant to this evolutionary process, but numerous prokaryote-to-eukaryote gene transfers have been demonstrated in the last few years (orange arrows) [9–13]. In this issue of Current Biology[4], evidence is reported that eukaryotic organisms also exchange genes via lateral gene transfer (red arrow).
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