by Christoph — If you read this blog fre­quently and, per­haps, be­cause we "em­pha­size the un­usual and the un­ex­pected phe­nom­ena", you may feel a lit­tle, Um.., bored to see yet an­other post on hor­i­zon­tal gene trans­fer (HGT). But wait, we've ac­tu­ally touched this topic in fewer than 30 of our 1,200+ posts. That's less than the...