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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
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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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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
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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
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Old genes in new places: A taxon-rich analysis of interdomain lateral gene transfer events. [PDF]
PLoS Genet, 2022 Vertical inheritance is foundational to Darwinian evolution, but fails to explain major innovations such as the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance among bacteria and the origin of photosynthesis in eukaryotes.
Cote-L'Heureux A +2 more
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Net rate of lateral gene transfer in marine prokaryoplankton. [PDF]
ISME JLateral gene transfer is a major evolutionary process in Bacteria and Archaea. Despite its importance, lateral gene transfer quantification in nature using traditional phylogenetic methods has been hampered by the rarity of most genes within the enormous
Stepanauskas R +11 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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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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The chemostat with lateral gene transfer [PDF]
Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2010 We investigate the standard chemostat model when lateral gene transfer is taken into account. We will show that when the different genotypes have growth rate functions that are sufficiently close to a common growth rate function, and when the yields of the genotypes are sufficiently close to a common value, then the population evolves to a globally ...
Patrick, De Leenheer +3 more
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The mechanisms underpinning lateral gene transfer between grasses
Plants, People, Planet, 2023 Societal Impact Statement Lateral gene transfer (LGT) refers to the transmission of genetic material without sexual reproduction. LGT is widespread in a number of plant species, including grasses.
Lara Pereira +2 more
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