Towards a quantitative understanding of horizontal gene transfer: a kinetic model.

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In this work, we present a simple kinetic model of horizontal gene transfer. It describes the processes of gene duplication, mutation, gene transfer and the regulation of the total size of the genome for genetically homogeneous prokaryotic species or strains. The emerging nonlinear system of first-order differential equations can be linearized at the stationary point. For selected models, we give an analytical...

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