Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT)
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 ...
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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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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 ...phage-mediated transfer of bacterial DNA be- ...
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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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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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Horizontal gene transfer is not a hallmark of the human genome
... A recent study by Crisp et al. [1] re-examined a claim, ori- ginally made in the landmark 2001 human genome paper, that bacteria had horizontally transferred 223 genes into a vertebrate ancestor of humans [2]. That claim ...
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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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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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Horizontal Gene Transfer in Thermus spp.
... active horizontal gene transfer (HGT) mechanisms allow the rapid spread of strain-specific adaptive gene modules among the entire ...DNA transfer from several points in the ...
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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 transfer in the human gastrointestinal tract: potential spread of antibiotic resistance genes
... Horizontal gene transfer in the large intestine occurs at levels that cannot be detected because of the complex nature of the microbial community structure both in diversity and in cell ...However, ...
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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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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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Migration and horizontal gene transfer divide microbial genomes into multiple niches
... and gene content 5–7 ...via horizontal gene .... Horizontal transfer is considered central to the ability of cells to adapt to new ecological conditions including clinical or ...
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Novel “Superspreader” Bacteriophages Promote Horizontal Gene Transfer by Transformation
... to horizontal gene transfer (6), previous investigations have focused almost exclusively on certain phages’ capacity for transduction ...phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer, ...
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Molecular Variation and Horizontal Gene Transfer of the Homocysteine Methyltransferase Gene mmuM and its Distribution in Clinical Pathogens
... (or gene fragments) including insA, insB, fbpC, mmuM, mmuP and ...fbpC gene, but also a complete fbpB gene more (Figure ...a horizontal gene transfer among different species or ...
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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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Phylogeographic support for horizontal gene transfer involving sympatric bruchid species
... two gene copies, it seems at first sight that the presence of two cytb copies in ...to transfer this ...cytb gene, could be very informative ...
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A horizontal gene transfer at the origin of phenylpropanoid metabolism: a key adaptation of plants to land
... Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer from the cyanobacterial symbiont to the host nucleus in the ances- tor of the phylum Plantae, it is not clear why it would have been lost multiple times independently in 2–3 ...
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