Sapp Jan
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Theory Biosci. 2010 Sep;129(2-3):125-33. doi: 10.1007/s12064-010-0089-5. Epub 2010 May 26.
Symbiosis has long been associated with saltational evolutionary change in contradistinction to gradual Darwinian evolution based on gene mutations and recombination between individuals of a species, as well as with super-organismal views of the individual in contrast to the classical one-genome: one organism conception. Though they have often been dismissed, and overshadowed by Darwinian theory, suggestions that symbiosis and lateral gene transfer are fundamental mechanisms of evolutionary innovation are borne out today by molecular phylogenetic research. It is time to treat these processes as central principles of evolution.
长期以来，共生现象一直与跳跃式进化变化相关联，这与基于基因突变和物种个体间重组的渐进式达尔文进化形成对比，同时也与个体的超有机体观点相关联，与经典的一个基因组：一个有机体概念形成对比。尽管共生现象和横向基因转移常常被忽视，并被达尔文理论所掩盖，但分子系统发育研究如今证实了关于共生和横向基因转移是进化创新基本机制的观点。是时候将这些过程视为进化的核心原则了。
