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Horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in bacteria

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021
Brian J Arnold, William P Hanage
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Microplastics Enhance the Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Anaerobic Sludge Digestion by Enriching Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Surface Biofilm and Facilitating the Vertical and Horizontal Gene Transfer.

Environmental Science and Technology, 2023
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and microplastics (MPs) are recognized as emerging contaminants and threats to global human health. Despite both of them being significantly detected in their "hotspots", i.e., waste activated sludge (WAS), rare studies
Tianyi Luo, Xiaohu Dai, Wei Wei, Qiuxiang Xu, Bing-Jie Ni   +4 more
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Horizontal gene transfer of Fhb7 from fungus underlies Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat

Science, 2020
Fungal disease meets its match Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by a fungus, reduces wheat crop yield and introduces toxins into the harvest. From the assembly of the genome of Thinopyrum elongatum, a wild relative of wheat used in breeding programs to
Hongwei Wang, Silong Sun, Wenyang Ge, Lanfei Zhao, B. Hou, Kai Wang, Zhongfan Lyu, Liyang Chen, Shoushen Xu, Jun Guo, Min Li, Peisen Su, Xuefeng Li, Gui-ping Wang, Cunyao Bo, Xiaojian Fang, Wenwen Zhuang, Xinxin Cheng, Jianwen Wu, Luhao Dong, Wuying Chen, W. Li, Guilian Xiao, Jinxiao Zhao, Yongchao Hao, Ying Xu, Yu Gao, Wenjing Liu, Yanhe Liu, Huayan Yin, Jiazhu Li, Xiang Li, Yan Zhao, Xiaoqian Wang, F. Ni, Xin Ma, An-fei Li, Steven S. Xu, G. Bai, E. Nevo, Caixia Gao, H. Ohm, L. Kong   +42 more
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Horizontal Gene Transfer

2006
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) may be defined as any occurrence of heritable material passing between organisms, asynchronous with reproduction of the organisms. It represents replication of heritable material outside the context of parent to offspring (i.e. vertical) reproduction. Three types of evidence traditionally lead to claims of HGT.
Jack A. Heinemann, Ralph A. Bungard
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Horizontal gene transfer in yeasts

Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2022
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), defined as the exchange of genetic material other than from parent to progeny, is very common in bacteria and appears to constitute the most important mechanism contributing to enlarge a species gene pool. However, in eukaryotes, HGT is certainly much less common and some early insufficiently consubstantiated cases ...
Paula, Gonçalves, Carla, Gonçalves
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Ancient horizontal gene transfer

Nature Reviews Genetics, 2003
The cornerstone of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is the vertical inheritance of traits from parent to offspring across successive generations. However, molecular evolutionary biologists have shown that extensive horizontal (also known as lateral) gene transfer (HGT) can occur between distantly related species.
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Horizontal gene transfer

Journal of Genetics, 1996
This review explores examples of horizontal genetic transfer in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. The best understood of these involves various conserved families of transposable elements, but examples of non-transposable-element-based movement of genes or gene clusters have also been identified in prokaryotic genomes.
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Horizontal gene transfer and phylogenetics

Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2003
The initial analysis of complete genomes has suggested that horizontal gene transfer events are very frequent between microorganisms. This could potentially render the inference, and even the concept itself, of the organismal phylogeny impossible. However, a coherent phylogenetic pattern has recently emerged from an analysis of about a hundred genes ...
Hervé, Philippe, Christophe J, Douady
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Horizontal gene transfer in trypanosomatids

Trends in Parasitology, 2007
Trypanosomes harbour a large number of structural and biochemical peculiarities. Kinetoplast DNA, mitochondrial RNA editing, the sequestration of glycolysis inside glycosomes and unique oxidative-stress protection mechanisms (to name but a few) are found only in the members of the order Kinetoplastida. Thus, it is not surprising that they have provoked
Fred R, Opperdoes, Paul A M, Michels
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Horizontal gene transfers as metagenomic gene duplications

Molecular BioSystems, 2012
While it is well accepted that horizontal gene transfer plays an important role in the evolution and the diversification of prokaryotic genomes, many questions remain open regarding its functional mechanisms of action and its interplay with the extant genome.
Grassi L, CASELLE, Michele, Lercher MJ, Lagomarsino M.C.   +3 more
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