Results 11 to 20 of about 230,314 (320)
Probabilistic inference of lateral gene transfer events. [PDF]
BMC Bioinformatics, 2016 Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is an evolutionary process that has an important role in biology. It challenges the traditional binary tree-like evolution of species and is attracting increasing attention of the molecular biologists due to its involvement in antibiotic resistance.
Khan MA +4 more
europepmc +6 more sources
Lateral gene transfer, rearrangement, reconciliation. [PDF]
BMC Bioinformatics, 2013 Models of ancestral gene order reconstruction have progressively integrated different evolutionary patterns and processes such as unequal gene content, gene duplications, and implicitly sequence evolution via reconciled gene trees. These models have so far ignored lateral gene transfer, even though in unicellular organisms it can have an important ...
Patterson M +3 more
europepmc +9 more sources
Aphids acquired symbiotic genes via lateral gene transfer [PDF]
BMC Biology, 2009 Background Aphids possess bacteriocytes, which are cells specifically differentiated to harbour the obligate mutualist Buchnera aphidicola (γ-Proteobacteria). Buchnera has lost many of the genes that appear to be essential for bacterial life.
Nakabachi Atsushi, Nikoh Naruo
doaj +3 more sources
Unconventional lateral gene transfer in extreme thermophilic bacteria [PDF]
International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology, 2011 Conjugation and natural competence are two major mechanisms that explain the acquisition of foreign genes throughout bacterial evolution. In recent decades, several studies in model organisms have revealed in great detail the steps involved in such ...
Berenguer, José +5 more
core +6 more sources
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
doaj +3 more sources
Lateral gene transfer leaves lasting traces in Rhizaria [PDF]
, 2023 van Hooff JJ, Eme L.
europepmc +2 more sources
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
doaj +2 more sources
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
doaj +2 more sources
Recent Fungal Diseases of Crop Plants: Is Lateral Gene Transfer a Common Theme?
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2008 A cursory glance at old textbooks of plant pathology reveals that the diseases which are the current scourge of agriculture in many parts of the world are a different set from those that were prominent 50 or 100 years ago.
Richard P. Oliver, Peter S. Solomon
doaj +2 more sources
Current Biology, 2011 SummaryThe four disparate images shown in Figure 1 have this in common: each represents a radical adaptation that would not have happened had lateral gene transfer (LGT), also known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT), not been the powerful evolutionary force we now know it to be.
Zhaxybayeva, Olga, Doolittle, W. Ford
+7 more sources