Lateral Gene Transfer in a Heavy Metal-Contaminated-Groundwater Microbial Community [PDF]
mBio, 2016 Unraveling the drivers controlling the response and adaptation of biological communities to environmental change, especially anthropogenic activities, is a central but poorly understood issue in ecology and evolution. Comparative genomics studies suggest
Christopher L. Hemme +14 more
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Uncovering rate variation of lateral gene transfer during bacterial genome evolution [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2008 Background Large scale genome arrangement, such as whole gene insertion/deletion, plays an important role in bacterial genome evolution. Various methods have been employed to study the dynamic process of gene insertions and deletions, such as parsimony ...
Golding G Brian, Hao Weilong
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Lateral gene transfer from the dead. [PDF]
Syst Biol, 2013 In phylogenetic studies, the evolution of molecular sequences is assumed to have taken place along the phylogeny traced by the ancestors of extant species. In the presence of lateral gene transfer (LGT), however, this may not be the case, because the species lineage from which a gene was transferred may have gone extinct or not have been sampled ...
Szöllosi GJ +3 more
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Lateral gene transfer between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. [PDF]
Exp Cell Res, 2017 Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is an all-encompassing term for the movement of DNA between diverse organisms. LGT is synonymous with horizontal gene transfer, and the terms are used interchangeably throughout the scientific literature. While LGT has been recognized within the bacteria domain of life for decades, inter-domain LGTs are being increasingly ...
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Lateral gene transfer between prokaryotes and multicellular eukaryotes: ongoing and significant? [PDF]
BMC Biology, 2009 The expansion of genome sequencing projects has produced accumulating evidence for lateral transfer of genes between prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. However, it remains controversial whether these genes are of functional importance in their recipient
Hurst Gregory DD, Ros Vera ID
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Old genes in new places: A taxon-rich analysis of interdomain lateral gene transfer events. [PDF]
PLoS Genet, 2022 Cote-L'Heureux A +2 more
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Lateral transfer of a lectin-like antifreeze protein gene in fishes.
PLoS ONE, 2008 Fishes living in icy seawater are usually protected from freezing by endogenous antifreeze proteins (AFPs) that bind to ice crystals and stop them from growing. The scattered distribution of five highly diverse AFP types across phylogenetically disparate
Laurie A Graham +3 more
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Lateral gene transfer leaves lasting traces in Rhizaria [PDF]
, 2023 van Hooff JJ, Eme L.
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Outer membrane vesicles of Acinetobacter baumannii DS002 carry circular DNA similar to bovine meat and milk factors (BMMFs) and SPHINX 2.36 and probably play a role in interdomain lateral gene transfer [PDF]
Microbiology SpectrumThe discovery of Replication Competent Circular DNA molecules in mammalian cells and tissues is being linked to debilitating diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and colorectal cancer (CRC).
Ganeshwari Dhurve +3 more
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Lateral Gene Transfer Dynamics in the Ancient Bacterial Genus
mBio, 2017 Lateral gene transfer (LGT) profoundly shapes the evolution of bacterial lineages. LGT across disparate phylogenetic groups and genome content diversity between related organisms suggest a model of bacterial evolution that views LGT as rampant and ...
Bradon R. McDonald, Cameron R. Currie
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