Genetic variability in a bacteria species

Right, the daughter bacteria are only going to be different right then if there's a transcription error (standard mutation.) BUT if they eat other bacteria not closely related to them, there's a very good chance that they won't be that similar to their parent or each other by the time they each split. Contrariwise, if they are the ones who get eaten, some of their own traits are liable to survive in bacterial lineages not descended from them in the usual way. Bacteria are the living spirit of miscegenation

Would you say that transduction (bacteriophages) and true conjugation are more likely than transformation then? That surprises me, but my opinions are about 10 years old. I just tried looking up current work, but everyone is all gay about what's happening in eukaryotes now, and that is mostly conjugation as I understand it.Feel free to link me somewhere if you don't feel up to teaching preschool.