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Inter-species horizontal transfer resulting in core-genome and niche-adaptive variation within Helicobacter pylori [PDF]

, 2005
Background Horizontal gene transfer is central to evolution in most bacterial species. The detection of exchanged regions is often based upon analysis of compositional characteristics and their comparison to the organism as a whole.
Boonmee, Prawit, Jarvis, Stephen A., Peden, John F., Saunders, Nigel J.   +3 more
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Widespread impact of horizontal gene transfer on plant colonization of land [PDF]

, 2012
In complex multicellular eukaryotes such as animals and plants, horizontal gene transfer is commonly considered rare with very limited evolutionary significance.
A Schaller, AA Wiszniewski, AK Werner, AO Richardson, B Wang, B Zhu, C Esser, C Zhao, D Cove, D Pisani, DC Price, EG Danchin, G Emiliani, G Noctor, G Ricard, G Sun, G Sun, H Ochman, H Philippe, H Tanaka, HA Schmidt, J Huang, J Huang, J Huang, JD Hackett, JO Andersson, JO Andersson, JO Andersson, JO Andersson, JP Gogarten, L Belbahri, L Klasson, LE Graham, LW Neuteboom, M Koulintchenko, M Syvanen, MC Brundrett, MJ Sanderson, NA Moran, PA Christin, PJ Keeling, R Alcazar, R Bock, S Guindon, S Yoshida, SD Copley, T Davidsen, T Flores, T Kusano, T Ni, TA Richards, TM Keane, U Bergthorsson, VV Goremykin, W Martin, Y Cheng   +55 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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Horizontal Gene Transfers in Mycoplasmas (Mollicutes) [PDF]

Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 2018
The class Mollicutes (trivial name "mycoplasma") is composed of wall-less bacteria with reduced genomes whose evolution was long thought to be only driven by gene losses. Recent evidences of massive horizontal gene transfer (HGT) within and across species provided a new frame to understand the successful adaptation of these minimal bacteria to a broad ...
Citti, Christine, Dordet-Frisoni, Emilie, Nouvel, Laurent Xavier, Kuo, CH, Baranowski, Eric   +4 more
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The Role of the Environment in Horizontal Gene Transfer

Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022
AbstractGene-by-environment interactions play a crucial role in horizontal gene transfer by affecting how the transferred genes alter host fitness. However, how the environment modulates the fitness effect of transferred genes has not been tested systematically in an experimental study.
Hande Acar Kirit, Jonathan P Bollback, Mato Lagator   +2 more
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Surfactin Facilitates Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacillus subtilis

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
Genetic competence for the uptake and integration of extracellular DNA is a key process in horizontal gene transfer (HGT), one of the most powerful forces driving the evolution of bacteria. In several species, development of genetic competence is coupled
Tjaša Danevčič, Anna Dragoš, Anna Dragoš, Mihael Spacapan, Polonca Stefanic, Iztok Dogsa, Ines Mandic-Mulec   +6 more
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Evidence of Massive Horizontal Gene Transfer Between Humans and Plasmodium vivax [PDF]

, 2011
The horizontal transfer of DNA between different organisms is a major force shaping the genomes of prokaryotes, but is considered to have a minor role in eukaryotes, with only a handful of known examples, mostly of limited size.
Daniel Z. Bar
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DUF2285 is a novel helix-turn-helix domain variant that orchestrates both activation and antiactivation of conjugative element transfer in proteobacteria. [PDF]

, 2023
Horizontal gene transfer is tightly regulated in bacteria. Often only a fraction of cells become donors even when regulation of horizontal transfer is coordinated at the cell population level by quorum sensing.
Bond, Charles S, Eto, Karina Y, Fagerlund, Robert D, Hall, Drew A, Jowsey, William J, Mackay, Joel P, Morris, Calum RP, Ramsay, Josh, Ronson, Clive W, Solomon, Paul D, Sullivan, John T   +10 more
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The Theory of Gene Family Histories [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Most genes are part of larger families of evolutionary related genes. The history of gene families typically involves duplications and losses of genes as well as horizontal transfers into other organisms. The reconstruction of detailed gene family histories, i.e., the precise dating of evolutionary events relative to phylogenetic tree of the underlying
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Horizontal Gene Transfer and the History of Life [PDF]

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2016
Microbes acquire DNA from a variety of sources. The last decades, which have seen the development of genome sequencing, have revealed that horizontal gene transfer has been a major evolutionary force that has constantly reshaped genomes throughout evolution. However, because the history of life must ultimately be deduced from gene phylogenies, the lack
Daubin, Vincent, Szöllősi, Gergely J.
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