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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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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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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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Lateral Transfer of Genes and Gene Fragments in Prokaryotes [PDF]
Genome Biology and Evolution, 2009 Lateral genetic transfer (LGT) involves the movement of genetic material from one lineage into another and its subsequent incorporation into the new host genome via genetic recombination. Studies in individual taxa have indicated lateral origins for stretches of DNA of greatly varying length, from a few nucleotides to chromosome size. Here we analyze 1,
Chan, Cheong Xin +3 more
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Patterns in evolutionary origins of heme, chlorophyll a and isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthetic pathways suggest non-photosynthetic periods prior to plastid replacements in dinoflagellates [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background The ancestral dinoflagellate most likely established a peridinin-containing plastid, which have been inherited in the extant photosynthetic descendants.
Eriko Matsuo, Yuji Inagaki
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mSphere, 2023 Entamoeba histolytica, a protozoan parasite, causes amoebiasis, which is a global public health problem. During the life cycle of this parasite, the properties of the cell membrane are changed markedly. To clarify the mechanism of membrane lipid changes,
Fumika Mi-ichi +3 more
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Genomic Data Quality Impacts Automated Detection of Lateral Gene Transfer in Fungi. [PDF]
G3 (Bethesda), 2017 Dupont PY, Cox MP.
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