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Improved gene tree error correction in the presence of horizontal gene transfer [PDF]

, 2014
Motivation: The accurate inference of gene trees is a necessary step in many evolutionary studies. Although the problem of accurate gene tree inference has received considerable attention, most existing methods are only applicable to gene families ...
Bansal, Bapteste, Burleigh, Chen, Choi, David, Delsuc, Doyon, Durand, Eric J. Alm, Felsenstein, Goodman, Guindon, Górecki, Hallett, Harding, Koonin, Lerat, Lerat, Li, Libeskind-Hadas, Liu, Ma, Manolis Kellis, Mukul S. Bansal, Nguyen, Organ, Ovadia, Page, Rambaut, Rasmussen, Rutschmann, Saitou, Salter, Sanderson, Sennblad, Shimodaira, Stamatakis, Stolzer, Storm, Thornton, Tofigh, Tofigh, Vilella, Wapinski, Whelan, Wu, Yang, Yi-Chieh Wu, Yule, Zhaxybayeva, Zhaxybayeva, Åkerborg   +52 more
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Horizontal transfer beyond genes [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major process in the evolution of bacteria and archaea (1⇓–3) that is thought to be the principal source of functional innovation in microbial evolution (4, 5). The signal of vertical, tree-like evolution is detectable primarily among genes encoding components of information processing systems, whereas evolution of ...
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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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Evolution of substrate specificity in a recipient's enzyme following horizontal gene transfer [PDF]

, 2013
Despite the prominent role of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in shaping bacterial metabolism, little is known about the impact of HGT on the evolution of enzyme function.
Abascal, Aldo R. Camacho-Zarco, Barona-Gomez, Brune, Carver, Collaborative Computational Project, Number 4 (CCP4), Dean, Depristo, Des Marais, Dittmar, Due, Francisco Barona-Gómez, Glykos, Guindon, Henn-Sax, Hess, Hodgson, Hu, Hughes, Humphrey, Ikeda, James, Jensen, Jensen, Jones, Jorgensen, Jung, Kane, Klassen, Kuper, Leaver-Fay, Lerat, Lianet Noda-García, MacKerell, Mauricio Carrillo-Tripp, McCoy, Murshudov, Nester, Noda-Garcia, Ohno, Pal, Parish, Paul Gaytán, Perrakis, Piatigorsky, Sofía Medina-Ruíz, Sterner, Tokuriki, Tokuriki, Treangen, Vilmos Fülöp, Vriend, Wright, Xie, Xie   +54 more
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HgtSIM: a simulator for horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in microbial communities [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
The development and application of metagenomic approaches have provided an opportunity to study and define horizontal gene transfer (HGT) on the level of microbial communities.
Weizhi Song, Kerrin Steensen, Torsten Thomas   +2 more
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Horizontal gene transfer in silkworm, Bombyx mori

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, Zhou Xue-Ping, Zhang Guo-Qing, Xie Guan-Lin, Lou Miao-Miao, Zhu Bo, Jin Gu-Lei   +6 more
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Horizontal Gene Transfer as a Source of Conflict and Cooperation in Prokaryotes

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is one of the most important processes in prokaryote evolution. The sharing of DNA can spread neutral or beneficial genes, as well as genetic parasites across populations and communities, creating a large proportion of the ...
Rebecca J. Hall, F. Whelan, J. McInerney, Yaqing Ou, M. Domingo-Sananes   +4 more
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Lateral gene exchanges shape the genomes of amoeba-resisting microorganisms

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2012
Based on Darwin’s concept of the tree of life, vertical inheritance was thought to be dominant, and mutations, deletions and duplication were streaming the genomes of living organisms.
Claire eBertelli, Gilbert eGreub
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Horizontal gene transfer potentiates adaptation by reducing selective constraints on the spread of genetic variation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance Bacteria can obtain genes from other bacteria, or the surrounding environment, by horizontal gene transfer (HGT). While it is clear that HGT is very important for microbial populations, it is not understood how HGT changes the rate or ...
Laura C. Woods, R. Gorrell, F. Taylor, T. Connallon, T. Kwok, Michael J. McDonald   +5 more
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Detecting Highways of Horizontal Gene Transfer [PDF]

Journal of Computational Biology, 2011
In a horizontal gene transfer (HGT) event, a gene is transferred between two species that do not have an ancestor-descendant relationship. Typically, no more than a few genes are horizontally transferred between any two species. However, several studies identified pairs of species between which many different genes were horizontally transferred. Such a
Bansal, Mukul S., Banay, Guy, Gogarten, J. Peter, Shamir, Ron   +3 more
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