Multiple pathways of plasmid DNA transfer in Helicobacter pylori [PDF]
, 2012 Many Helicobacter pylori (Hp) strains carry cryptic plasmids of different size and gene content, the function of which is not well understood. A subgroup of these plasmids (e.g.
Benghezal, Mohammed +5 more
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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 +5 more
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Gene Loss and Horizontal Gene Transfer Contributed to the Genome Evolution of the Extreme Acidophile “Ferrovum” [PDF]
, 2016 Indexación: Web of Science. Scopus.Acid mine drainage (AMD), associated with active and abandoned mining sites, is a habitat for acidophilic microorganisms that gain energy from the oxidation of reduced sulfur compounds and ferrous iron and that thrive ...
Daniel, Rolf +7 more
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Identification of multiple independent horizontal gene transfers into poxviruses using a comparative genomics approach [PDF]
, 2008 Background Poxviruses are important pathogens of humans, livestock and wild animals. These large dsDNA viruses have a set of core orthologs whose gene order is extremely well conserved throughout poxvirus genera.
Kirsten A Bratke, Aoife McLysaght
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Bacterial cooperation through horizontal gene transfer [PDF]
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022 Cooperation exists across all scales of biological organization, from genetic elements to complex human societies. Bacteria cooperate by secreting molecules that benefit all individuals in the population (i.e., public goods). Genes associated with cooperation can spread among strains through horizontal gene transfer (HGT). We discuss recent findings on
Isaiah Paolo A. Lee +3 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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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 +5 more
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Horizontal gene transfer in silkworm,
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 +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 +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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