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Adapting for life in the extreme
eLife, 2019 Red algae have adapted to extreme environments by acquiring genes from bacteria and archaea.
Carolin M Kobras, Daniel Falush
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eLife, 2019 The role and extent of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in eukaryotes are hotly disputed topics that impact our understanding of the origin of metabolic processes and the role of organelles in cellular evolution.
Alessandro W Rossoni +6 more
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Evolutionary mechanisms for camouflage in Cladomorphus phyllinus (Phasmatodea): A reflection on the role of evidence for hypotheses proposition [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2020 We address and discuss some of the many flaws exhibited by Costa et al. (2019) which tried to explain the twig-like camouflage of Cladomorphus phyllinus. Given the lack of both empirical and theoretical underpinnings in Costa et al.
DIMITRI FORERO +3 more
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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
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Horizontally transferred genes in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has had major impacts on the biology of a wide range of organisms from antibiotic resistance in bacteria to adaptations to herbivory in arthropods. A growing body of literature shows that HGT between non-animals and animals
Alexandra M. Hernandez, Joseph F. Ryan
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The source of laterally transferred genes in bacterial genomes [PDF]
Genome Biology, 2003 Laterally transferred genes have often been identified on the basis of compositional features that distinguish them from ancestral genes in the genome. These genes are usually A+T-rich, arguing either that there is a bias towards acquiring genes from donor organisms having low G+C contents or that genes acquired from organisms of similar genomic base ...
Daubin, Vincent +2 more
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LATERAL GENE TRANSFER DETECTION USING MULTIPLE AGREEMENT FORESTS
, 2023 Phylogenetic trees are used to illustrate evolutionary relationships between and among species. However, lateral gene transfers (LGTs) can cause different evolutionary histories for genes compared to the species.
Kakadiya, Kartik
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2003 Background Lateral gene transfer can introduce genes with novel functions into genomes or replace genes with functionally similar orthologs or paralogs. Here we present a study of the occurrence of the latter gene replacement phenomenon in the four gene ...
Roger Andrew J, Andersson Jan O
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Gene duplication drives genome expansion in a major lineage of Thaumarchaeota
Nature Communications, 2020 Ammonia-oxidising archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are important organisms in the nitrogen cycle. Using 12 new genomes, this study finds evidence that Nitrososphaerales evolution was marked by lateral gene transfer followed by gene duplication.
Paul O. Sheridan +7 more
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Investigating transcription factor dynamics in health and disease using FRAP
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.FRAP analysis of GFP‐tagged transcription factors reveals how molecular mobility and target engagement change in response to drug treatment. By combining live‐cell imaging, quantitative model fitting, and statistical analysis, this approach uncovers transcription factor dynamics linked to disease mechanisms, providing a powerful framework for ...
Kannan Govindaraj +3 more
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