Awesome analysis of a nature paper! As a former researcher of HGT, I'm always excited to see this field staying relevant enough to reach top tier journals. It's a shame you can't post that video as its quite a good demonstration of what's happening. I encourage everyone who missed it to check it out.

One thing to point out here is that they did all this work in the pathogen Vibrio Cholerae. This strain is a bit harder to work with than the nonpathogenic model Vibrio fisheri but was probably done to raise the importance of the work (HGT studies are only sexy if it prevents the squiring of antibiotic resistance/pathogenicity).