Horizontal gene transfer and phage evolution
Horizontal gene transfer and evolution of antibiotic gene clusters
... streptomycin pathway-specific regulator, strR, has been found in a set of diverse streptomycetes both phenotypically and genetically that previously have already been[r] ...
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The ecology and evolution of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria
... favouring gene mobility and promoting compensatory evolution to ameliorate plasmid ...pensatory evolution to ameliorate the cost of plasmid carriage was widespread across the entire range of Hg 2þ ...
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Horizontal gene transfer contributes to the evolution of arthropod herbivory
... by horizontal gene transfer ...eukaryotic evolution remains ...metazoan evolution by uncovering its prominent role in the adaptations of arthropods to exploit ...
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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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Evolution of mosaic operons by horizontal gene transfer and gene displacement in situ
... situ gene displacement seems highly unlikely: given the vast evolutionary distance separating the donor and recipient genomes, homologous recombination is out of the ...displacing gene(s) is located on the ...
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CRISPR Cas Mediated Phage Resistance Enhances Horizontal Gene Transfer by Transduction
... prokaryotic evolution is horizontal gene transfer (HGT) through transformation, conjugation, and transduction, which can be advantageous, neutral, or detrimental to ...and phage ...
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Genomic islands: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and evolution
... GEI transfer is a highly regulated process with a variety of developed regulatory ...genome evolution in general and in adaptation to changing conditions, in either clinical, industrial or natural ...self- ...
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Evolution of Phototrophy in the Chloroflexi Phylum Driven by Horizontal Gene Transfer
... massive gene loss in most lineages, to a later origin in Cyanobacteria followed by extensive horizontal gene transfer into the extant phototrophic clades, with intermediate scenarios that ...
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Evolution of gene fusions: horizontal transfer versus independent events
... of gene fusions was studied by phylogenetic analysis of the domains in the fused proteins and the orthologous domains that form stand-alone ...by horizontal transfer. Of the 51 examined gene ...
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Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli
... 'allopatric gene divergence', wherein a TF's function diverges after HGT moves the TF into a new genome with new selective pressures, and once the TF's function diverges it is reacquired ...the gene that ...
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Molecular Evolution and Horizontal Gene Transfer in Plant Parasitic Nematodes
... of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Evolution of Parasitism With the availability of a reliable evolutionary framework, it will be easier to formulate more biologically plausible hypotheses ...
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Beyond horizontal gene transfer: the role of plasmids in bacterial evolution
... plasmid transfer 110 ...rizhobium evolution has shown that co-transfer of UmuDC with symbiotic genes on a plasmid accelerates the transition of plant pathogens into legume symbionts by generating a ...
Evolution of substrate specificity in a recipient's enzyme following horizontal gene transfer
... Corynebacterium species are closely related to Streptomyces coelicolor and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, where L-Histidine and L-Tryptophan biosynthesis have been shown to converge (Figure 1) (Barona-Gomez and Hodgson ...
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Horizontal transfer and gene loss shaped the evolution of alpha-amylases in bilaterians
... Mollusca Gastropoda Vetigastropoda Tegula atra GenBank SRA SRX958768 Mollusca Bivalvia Mytiloida Bathymodiolus platifrons* GenBank Assembly MJUT01033839. Mollusca Bivalvia Mytiloi[r] ...
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Selfish Operons: Horizontal Transfer May Drive the Evolution of Gene Clusters
... Taxa carrying functional alleles of all genes are termed “positive”; taxa lacking any of these genes are termed “negative.” The collection of taxa is exposed to successive[r] ...
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Mechanisms of Horizontal Gene Transfer
... a horizontal gene transfer event was strongly suggested, and specially, the potential existence of some undetected reservoir, capable of spreading the cfr gene among the pathogenic ...
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Evolution of PE35 and PPE68 Gene Families in Mycobacterium: Roles of Horizontal Gene Transfer and Evolutionary Constraints
... and evolution of 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 ...
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Stochastic Models for Horizontal Gene Transfer
... genome evolution, the last universal common ancestor and domi- Garcia-Vallve, ...2000 Horizontal gene nance of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of ...
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Horizontal Gene Transfer in Thermus spp.
... mediated transfer of any marker in the genome from donor to recipient, and especially favors those genes located within the megaplasmid, which may be more useful for environmental ...distributive transfer ...
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Evolution of an insect immune barrier through horizontal gene transfer mediated by a parasitic wasp.
... viral gene BV2-5 is highly expressed in the fat body and in the haemocytes of parasitized Manduca sexta larvae, where, concurrently, antimicrobial peptides are up-regulated, while genes involved in the phenol ...
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