1.   But the consortium asserted that some of these genes were likely to have been acquired by lateral transfer rather than vertical descent.

2.   Camp said in an interview he was given a lateral transfer to his new job as a feature writer concentrating on the arts.

3.   Evolutionary biologists are working on several approaches for seeing beyond the confusion caused by lateral transfer.

4.   Many corporate relocations are now lateral transfers that occur when an entire department is packed up and sent to a new location.

5.   The pool was formed by a community of cells that frequently exchanged genes among themselves by lateral transfer.