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Improved gene tree error correction in the presence of horizontal gene transfer [PDF]

, 2014
Motivation: The accurate inference of gene trees is a necessary step in many evolutionary studies. Although the problem of accurate gene tree inference has received considerable attention, most existing methods are only applicable to gene families ...
Bansal, Bapteste, Burleigh, Chen, Choi, David, Delsuc, Doyon, Durand, Eric J. Alm, Felsenstein, Goodman, Guindon, Górecki, Hallett, Harding, Koonin, Lerat, Lerat, Li, Libeskind-Hadas, Liu, Ma, Manolis Kellis, Mukul S. Bansal, Nguyen, Organ, Ovadia, Page, Rambaut, Rasmussen, Rutschmann, Saitou, Salter, Sanderson, Sennblad, Shimodaira, Stamatakis, Stolzer, Storm, Thornton, Tofigh, Tofigh, Vilella, Wapinski, Whelan, Wu, Yang, Yi-Chieh Wu, Yule, Zhaxybayeva, Zhaxybayeva, Åkerborg   +52 more
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Widespread inter- and intra-domain horizontal gene transfer of d-amino acid metabolism enzymes in eukaryotes [PDF]

, 2016
Analysis of the growing number of available fully-sequenced genomes has shown that Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) in eukaryotes is more common than previously thought.
Brock, Matthias, Brunke, Sascha, Gabaldón, Toni, Hube, Bernhard, Marcet-Houben, Marina, Naranjo-Ortíz, Miguel A.   +5 more
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Horizontal gene transfer from Agrobacterium to plants

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014
Most genetic engineering of plants uses Agrobacterium mediated transformation to introduce novel gene content. In nature, insertion of T-DNA in the plant genome and its subsequent transfer via sexual reproduction has been shown in several species in the ...
Tatiana V. Matveeva, Ludmila A. Lutova
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LINE-1 retrotransposons facilitate horizontal gene transfer into poxviruses

eLife, 2022
There is ample phylogenetic evidence that many critical virus functions, like immune evasion, evolved by the acquisition of genes from their hosts through horizontal gene transfer (HGT).
M Julhasur Rahman, Sherry L Haller, Ana MM Stoian, Jie Li, Greg Brennan, Stefan Rothenburg   +5 more
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Microbial evolution through horizontal gene transfer by mobile genetic elements

Microbial Biotechnology
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are crucial for horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in bacteria and facilitate their rapid evolution and adaptation.
Maho Tokuda, Masaki Shintani
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Systematic detection of horizontal gene transfer across genera among multidrug-resistant bacteria in a single hospital

eLife, 2020
Multidrug-resistant bacteria pose a serious health threat, especially in hospitals. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) facilitates the spread of antibiotic resistance, virulence, and environmental persistence genes between ...
D. Evans, M. Griffith, A. Sundermann, K. Shutt, M. Saul, M. Mustapha, Jane W. Marsh, V. Cooper, L. Harrison, D. Van Tyne   +9 more
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Horizontal gene transfer in silkworm, Bombyx mori

BMC Genomics, 2011
Background The domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori, is the model insect for the order Lepidoptera, has economically important values, and has gained some representative behavioral characteristics compared to its wild ancestor. The genome of B.
Li Bin, Zhou Xue-Ping, Zhang Guo-Qing, Xie Guan-Lin, Lou Miao-Miao, Zhu Bo, Jin Gu-Lei   +6 more
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Horizontal gene transfer-mediated bacterial strain variation affects host fitness in Drosophila

BMC Biology, 2021
Background How microbes affect host fitness and environmental adaptation has become a fundamental research question in evolutionary biology. To better understand the role of microbial genomic variation for host fitness, we tested for associations of ...
Yun Wang, Franz Baumdicker, Paul Schweiger, Sven Kuenzel, Fabian Staubach   +4 more
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The infinitely many genes model with horizontal gene transfer

, 2014
The genome of bacterial species is much more flexible than that of eukaryotes. Moreover, the distributed genome hypothesis for bacteria states that the total number of genes present in a bacterial population is greater than the genome of every single ...
Baumdicker, Franz, Pfaffelhuber, Peter
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Horizontal gene transfer contributes to plant evolution : the case of Agrobacterium T-DNAs [PDF]

, 2017
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can be defined as the acquisition of genetic material from another organism without being its offspring. HGT is common in the microbial world including archaea and bacteria, where HGT mechanisms are widely understood and ...
Gheysen, Godelieve, Kreuze, Jan F, Quispe Huamanquispe, Dora   +2 more
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