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Experimental determination of evolutionary barriers to horizontal gene transfer
BMC Microbiology, 2020 Background Horizontal gene transfer, the acquisition of genes across species boundaries, is a major source of novel phenotypes that enables microbes to rapidly adapt to new environments.
Hande Acar Kirit +2 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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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 +4 more
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Horizontal gene transfer contributed to the evolution of extracellular surface structures [PDF]
, 2012 The single-cell layered ectoderm of the fresh water polyp Hydra fulfills the function of an epidermis by protecting the animals from the surrounding medium.
Altstätter, Johannes +13 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 +6 more
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Horizontal Gene Transfer and Endophytes: An Implication for the Acquisition of Novel Traits
Plants, 2020 Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), an important evolutionary mechanism observed in prokaryotes, is the transmission of genetic material across phylogenetically distant species.
P. Tiwari, Hanhong Bae
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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 +5 more
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Microbial evolution through horizontal gene transfer by mobile genetic elements
Microbial BiotechnologyMobile genetic elements (MGEs) are crucial for horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in bacteria and facilitate their rapid evolution and adaptation.
Maho Tokuda, Masaki Shintani
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Monitoring horizontal gene transfer [PDF]
Nature Biotechnology, 2004 doi:10.1038/nbt1104-1349a ; International ...
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