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Extensive horizontal gene transfer in cheese-associated bacteria [PDF]

eLife, 2017
Acquisition of genes through horizontal gene transfer (HGT) allows microbes to rapidly gain new capabilities and adapt to new or changing environments.
Kevin S Bonham, Benjamin E Wolfe, Rachel J Dutton   +2 more
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Inferring horizontal gene transfer.

PLoS Computational Biology, 2015
Horizontal or Lateral Gene Transfer (HGT or LGT) is the transmission of portions of genomic DNA between organisms through a process decoupled from vertical inheritance.
Matt Ravenhall, Nives Škunca, Florent Lassalle, Christophe Dessimoz   +3 more
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Horizontal Gene Transfer, Dispersal and Haloarchaeal Speciation [PDF]

Life, 2015
The Halobacteria are a well-studied archaeal class and numerous investigations are showing how their diversity is distributed amongst genomes and geographic locations.
R. Thane Papke, Paulina Corral, Nikhil Ram-Mohan, Rafael R. de la Haba, Cristina Sánchez-Porro, Andrea Makkay, Antonio Ventosa   +6 more
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Horizontal gene transfer in chromalveolates [PDF]

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2007
Background Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the non-genealogical transfer of genetic material between different organisms, is considered a potentially important mechanism of genome evolution in eukaryotes. Using phylogenomic analyses of expressed sequence
Bhattacharya Debashish, Nosenko Tetyana
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Bacterial evolution in the oral microbiome: the role of conjugative elements and horizontal gene transfer [PDF]

Journal of Bacteriology
As one of the most diverse bacterial populations within the human body, the oral microbiome encodes a wealth of genetic information. Horizontal gene transfer, driven by mobile genetic elements, takes advantage of this information to influence bacterial ...
Allison J. Renno, Robert C. Shields, Lisa K. McLellan   +2 more
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Horizontal gene transfer of molecular weapons can reshape bacterial competition. [PDF]

PLoS Biology
Bacteria commonly use molecular weaponry to kill or inhibit competitors. Genes encoding many weapons and their associated immunity mechanisms can be transmitted horizontally.
Elisa T Granato, Jacob D Palmer, Christian Kirk, Connor Sharp, George Shillcock, Kevin R Foster   +5 more
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Predicting horizontal gene transfers with perfect transfer networks

Algorithms for Molecular Biology
Background Horizontal gene transfer inference approaches are usually based on gene sequences: parametric methods search for patterns that deviate from a particular genomic signature, while phylogenetic methods use sequences to reconstruct the gene and ...
Alitzel López Sánchez, Manuel Lafond
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Structural basis for recognition of transcriptional terminator structures by ProQ/FinO domain RNA chaperones

Nature Communications, 2022
In this work, the authors determine the crystal structure of a ProQ/FinO RNA chaperone bound to its RNA target. This provides insight into how this family of bacterial proteins recognize transcriptional terminator structures.
Hyeong Jin Kim, Mazzen Black, Ross A. Edwards, Flora Peillard-Fiorente, Rashmi Panigrahi, David Klingler, Reiner Eidelpes, Ricarda Zeindl, Shiyun Peng, Jikun Su, Ayat R. Omar, Andrew M. MacMillan, Christoph Kreutz, Martin Tollinger, Xavier Charpentier, Laetitia Attaiech, J. N. Mark Glover   +16 more
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Staphylococcus equorum plasmid pKS1030-3 encodes auxiliary biofilm formation and trans-acting gene mobilization systems

Scientific Reports, 2023
The foodborne bacterium Staphylococcus equorum strain KS1030 harbours plasmid pSELNU1, which encodes a lincomycin resistance gene. pSELNU1 undergoes horizontal transfer between bacterial strains, thus spreading antibiotic resistance.
Sojeong Heo, Seung-Eun Oh, Gawon Lee, Jinwook Lee, Nam-Chul Ha, Che Ok Jeon, Keuncheol Jeong, Jong-Hoon Lee, Do-Won Jeong   +8 more
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Horizontal Gene Transfer Involving Chloroplasts [PDF]

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT)- is defined as the acquisition of genetic material from another organism. However, recent findings indicate a possible role of HGT in the acquisition of traits with adaptive significance, suggesting that HGT is an important driving force in the evolution of eukaryotes as well as prokaryotes.
Ewa Filip, Lidia Skuza
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