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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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 +3 more
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Mechanisms of Horizontal Gene Transfer [PDF]
, 2017 Horizontal gene transfer plays important roles in the evolution of S. aureus, and indeed, a variety of virulence factors and antibiotic resistance genes are embedded in a series of mobile genetic elements. In this chapter, we review the mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer, including recent findings on the natural genetic competence.
Cafini Barrado, Fabio +2 more
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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 +2 more
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A probabilistic model for gene content evolution with duplication, loss, and horizontal transfer [PDF]
, 2005 We introduce a Markov model for the evolution of a gene family along a phylogeny. The model includes parameters for the rates of horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication, and gene loss, in addition to branch lengths in the phylogeny. The likelihood for the changes in the size of a gene family across different organisms can be calculated in O(N+hM^2 ...
A.B. Simonson +43 more
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Is cooperation favored by horizontal gene transfer? [PDF]
Evol Lett, 2023 Abstract It has been hypothesized that horizontal gene transfer on plasmids can facilitate the evolution of cooperation, by allowing genes to jump between bacteria, and hence increase genetic relatedness at the cooperative loci. However, we show theoretically that horizontal gene transfer only appreciably increases relatedness when ...
Scott TW, West SA, Dewar AE, Wild G.
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Horizontal gene transfer of microbial cellulases into nematode genomes is associated with functional assimilation and gene turnover [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background Natural acquisition of novel genes from other organisms by horizontal or lateral gene transfer is well established for microorganisms. There is now growing evidence that horizontal gene transfer also plays important roles in the evolution of ...
Dieterich Christoph +4 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 +6 more
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Novel gene cluster analysis method identifies horizontally transferred genes with high reliability and reveals their involvement in operon formation [PDF]
arXiv, 2005 This paper was withdrawn by the authors.
Keiichi Homma +4 more
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Gene silencing and large-scale domain structure of the E. coli genome [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 The H-NS chromosome-organizing protein in E. coli can stabilize genomic DNA loops, and form oligomeric structures connected to repression of gene expression. Motivated by the link between chromosome organization, protein binding and gene expression, we analyzed publicly available genomic data sets of various origins, from genome-wide protein binding ...
Lagomarsino, Marco Cosentino +2 more
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