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Extensive Horizontal Gene Transfer during Staphylococcus aureus Co-colonization In Vivo
... and the staphylococcal cassette chromosomes encoding methicillin-resistance (SCCmec) that can be acquired and lost from genomes through horizontal gene transfer (HGT) mech- anisms (Lindsay 2014b). HGT of ...
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Molecular Variation and Horizontal Gene Transfer of the Homocysteine Methyltransferase Gene mmuM and its Distribution in Clinical Pathogens
... rRNA gene phylogenetic tree (Figure ...mmuM gene and its host. Generally, the mmuM gene sequences from the same species were closer in the phylogenetic ...that horizontal gene transfer ...
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Synthetic Fatty Acids Prevent Plasmid Mediated Horizontal Gene Transfer
... ABSTRACT Bacterial conjugation constitutes a major horizontal gene transfer mechanism for the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes among human pathogens. Antibiotic resistance spread could be halted ...
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Contribution of Horizontal Gene Transfer to the Evolution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
... logues of only around 50% of S. cerevisiae genes can be iden- tified. More useful evolutionary distances are represented by the recently published A. gossypii (11) and Kluyveromyces waltii (25) genomes, where ...
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Alienness: Rapid Detection of Candidate Horizontal Gene Transfers across the Tree of Life
... Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), is the transmission of genes between organisms by other way than direct (vertical) inheritance from parental lineages to their ...
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Contribution of horizontal gene transfer to the emergence of VIM-4 carbapenemase producer Enterobacteriaceae in Kuwait
... local horizontal gene transmission, leading to the uniform presence of the same bla VIM -containing In416 integron in all Kuwaiti isolates, irrespective of the species and plasmids carried, and to the wide ...
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Horizontal Gene Transfer of Functional Type VI Killing Genes by Natural Transformation
... ABSTRACT Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can have profound effects on bacterial evolution by allowing individuals to rapidly acquire adaptive traits that shape their strategies for ...via horizontal ...
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Amoebozoa Possess Lineage-Specific Globin Gene Repertoires Gained by Individual Horizontal Gene Transfers
... The Amoebozoa represent a clade of unicellular amoeboid organisms that display a wide variety of lifestyles, including free-living and parasitic species. For example, the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum has the ...
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Evolution of PE35 and PPE68 Gene Families in Mycobacterium: Roles of Horizontal Gene Transfer and Evolutionary Constraints
... these gene families and the differences in their com- position between pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains, several bioinformatic analyses were con- ducted both among Mycobacterium and closely related species ...
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Evolution of substrate specificity in a recipient's enzyme following horizontal gene transfer
... that gene duplication of multi-specific enzymes, followed by narrowing of substrate specificity, is the primary mechanism by which novel enzyme families have evolved (Jensen 1976; Ohno 1970; Piatigorsky ...2007). ...
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Evolutionary Origins of the Eukaryotic Shikimate Pathway: Gene Fusions, Horizontal Gene Transfer, and Endosymbiotic Replacements
... eukaryote-to-eukaryote horizontal gene transfer ...arom gene fusion event may be an ancient eukaryotic ...50 gene/domain loss events, demonstrating that loss and replacement events have been ...
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Migration and horizontal gene transfer divide microbial genomes into multiple niches
... the horizontal gene flux initially increases up to a maximum at a 1:1 ratio of donors and recipients (C(t) ¼ 1 C(t) ¼ ...the gene flux, which gives the expected number of horizontal gene ...
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On the need for widespread horizontal gene transfers under genome size constraint
... of horizontal gene transfers in free-living prokaryotes is a simple but necessary consequence of two opposite effects: i) their apparent genome size constraint compared to typical eukaryote genomes and ii) ...
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Opportunity and Means: Horizontal Gene Transfer from the Human Host to a Bacterial Pathogen
... or horizontal gene transfer (HGT), has been frequently described for phylogenetically related organisms, but far less evidence exists for HGT between highly divergent ...irg4 gene in some ...
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The advantages and disadvantages of horizontal gene transfer and the emergence of the first species
... of horizontal gene transfer in early evolution, and reports that, under accurate replication, lower rates of HGT are ...each gene type represented in a genome, and a lower cost c for every ...
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CRISPR Cas Mediated Phage Resistance Enhances Horizontal Gene Transfer by Transduction
... is horizontal gene transfer (HGT) through transformation, conjugation, and transduction, which can be advantageous, neutral, or detrimental to ...where gene flow by transduction is ...
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Stochastic Models for Horizontal Gene Transfer
... Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a critical role in evolution across all domains of life with important biological and medical ...multiple gene trees and an unknown, but estimable species ...
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Horizontal Gene Transfers in Mycoplasmas (Mollicutes)
... Horizontal gene transfers in mycoplasmas For decades, genome streamlining was thought to be the only force driving mycoplasma evolution. Indeed, HGT was thought to be marginal in these organisms because of ...
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Horizontal Gene Transfer in Thermus spp.
... Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and symbiosis constitute a basis to explain the explosive evolution and dramatic adaptability to new environments shown by both prokaryotes and ...
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Novel “Superspreader” Bacteriophages Promote Horizontal Gene Transfer by Transformation
... ond, many of which carry physiologically relevant plasmids (e.g., those encoding an- tibiotic resistance). However, even though phage-plasmid interactions occur on a massive scale and have potentially significant ...
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