horizontal gene transfer
Migration and horizontal gene transfer divide microbial genomes into multiple niches
... of horizontal gene transfer increases with an increasing number of distinct niches (n) in the community ...and gene transfer is also increased by a stronger separation of the cells into ...
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Horizontal gene transfer in the human gastrointestinal tract: potential spread of antibiotic resistance genes
... of horizontal gene transfer that has shaped the evolution of bacterial ...resistance gene transfer via bacteriophages is limited when compared to natural transformation and ...
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Synthetic Fatty Acids Prevent Plasmid Mediated Horizontal Gene Transfer
... I nfections due to enterobacteria carrying antibiotic resistance (AbR) determinants are a major cause of global morbidity and mortality (1). Despite their ongoing success, antibiotics are be- coming a progressively more ...
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Horizontal Gene Transfer and Its Part in the Reorganisation of Genetics during the LUCA Epoch
... Abstract: Currently there are five known mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer (HGT): transduction, conjugation, transformation, gene transfer agents and membrane vesicle ...
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Novel “Superspreader” Bacteriophages Promote Horizontal Gene Transfer by Transformation
... promoting horizontal gene transfer by trans- ...lateral transfer of antibiotic resistance in unbiased com- munities of soil bacteria from Maryland and ...
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Systematic Search for Evidence of Interdomain Horizontal Gene Transfer from Prokaryotes to Oomycete Lineages
... prokaryotes, horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can also have a significant influence on the evolution of microscopic ...intradomain transfer events between oomyce- tes and ...final transfer ...
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CRISPR Cas Mediated Phage Resistance Enhances Horizontal Gene Transfer by Transduction
... phage-mediated transfer of bacterial DNA, is arguably the major route for genetic ...control gene transfer by conjugation and transformation, but transduction has been mostly ...on horizontal ...
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Horizontal gene transfer of plant specific leucine rich repeats between plants and bacteria
... that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of genes/gene fragments encoding PS-LRR do- mains occurred between bacteria and plants, and HGT among the eleven bacterial species, of the three phyla, as ...
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Modeling horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in the gut of the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius prolixus
... of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between an engineered symbiotic bacterium used for paratransgenic control of vector-borne Chagas disease and a closely related environmental ...events: gene ...
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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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Extensive Horizontal Gene Transfer during Staphylococcus aureus Co-colonization In Vivo
... co-colonization, transfer of MGE from the pig to the human isolate was detected within 4 ...repeated transfer of two bacteriophages and three plasmids resulted in colonization with isolates carrying a wide ...
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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 ...
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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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Contribution of Horizontal Gene Transfer to the Evolution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
... of horizontal gene transfer have been well ...tal transfer of mitochondrial genes has been recently reported between parasitic plants and their plant hosts ...interkingdom horizontal ...
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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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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 ...HGT transfer or secondarily via the plastid progenitor ...50 gene/domain ...
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Widespread Horizontal Gene Transfer from Double-Stranded RNA Viruses to Eukaryotic Nuclear Genomes
... Horizontal gene transfer commonly occurs from cells to viruses but rarely occurs from viruses to their host cells, with the exception of retroviruses and some DNA ...that horizontal ...
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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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Prokaryotic Horizontal Gene Transfer in Freshwater Lakes: Implications of Dynamic Biogeochemical Zonation
... regulating horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can vary ap- preciably over space and time within freshwater lacustrine ...of gene transfer (conjugation, transduction, and transformation) in ...
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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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