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The 86 pages that link to Horizontal gene transfer, each with the reason it gives.

• Molecular clockCompared with: It can make gene histories diverge from the species divergences a clock aims to date.

• Incomplete lineage sortingCompared with: It creates cross-lineage histories through transfer, not persistence of ancestral variants.

• IntrogressionCompared with: It moves DNA without the hybridization and backcrossing that define introgression.

• Common descentCompared with: It complicates a strictly branching account of ancestry, especially among microbes.

• Crop wild relativesCompared with: Crop improvement from wild relatives generally uses sexual inheritance, not horizontal transfer.

• Molecular evolutionCompared with: Transferred sequences can disrupt the branching histories expected from vertical descent.

• MutagenesisCompared with: It changes a genome by acquisition, not by generating a new mutation in place.

• Germ cellCompared with: It transmits genes without the germ-cell lineage that defines vertical inheritance.

• Insect taxonomyCompared with: Gene histories can disagree with species histories and complicate some phylogenetic analyses.

• Extranuclear inheritanceCompared with: It transfers genes across lineages rather than transmitting organelle genomes through cell divisions.