When searching for very recent horizontally transferred genes, in different strains of a species for instance, it was possible to find a great homology between detected genes and some genes from other species (Table 5 ). In numerous cases, the selection of donors is consistent with FASTA results ( Table 5 ). This confirms the pertinence, beyond the similarity of signature between putative HTs and donors, of the proposed method to retrieve the species of origin of a transferred region. It seems that the search for origin of HTs on the basis of genomic signature is a powerful approach to understand some of the mechanisms of evolution (13, 63) .