Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of antibiotic resistance genes, virulence factors, toxins, and genes involved in stress response and metabolism are pervasive among prokaryotes, especially bacteria1. HGT is even more widespread in the human-associated microorganisms2,3,4due to the close physical proximit...
Horizontal Gene Transfer Example Horizontal gene transfer happens very commonly in bacterial cells. One bacterial cell will connect to another bacterial cell and send its DNA for things such as antibiotic resistance. The genes for antibiotic resistance are normally found on plasmids inside of the bacte...
Horizontal Gene Transfer Horizontal gene transferinvolves the movement of genes between species that are not sexually compatible and may belong to very different taxonomic groups. The process is common in bacteria, resulting in the transfer of plasmid-borneantibiotic resistancetraits from harmless to pa...
The genus Neisseriais included among those organisms containing a large number of foreign or exogenous genes in its genome. In most cases, the incorporation of these foreign genes is the consequence...doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21862-1_15S. Sánchez...
Thiamine biosynthesis genes were most likely lost and reacquired by horizontal gene transfer as an operon on the branch that includesG. morbifer In order to better understand the evolutionary history of the TBP (Fig.2A) inGluconobacter, we analyzed the synteny of the underlying loci in a phyloge...
“We know that the majority of the DNA in the genomes of some animal and plant species – including humans, mice, wheat and corn – came from HGT insertions. For example, we can trace the development of the adaptive immune system in humans and other jointed vertebrates to an HGT insertion...
Genes associated with cooperation can spread among strains through horizontal gene transfer (HGT). We discuss recent findings on how HGT mediated by mobile genetic elements promotes bacterial cooperation, how cooperation in turn can facilitate more frequent HGT, and how the act of HGT itself may be...
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the non-genealogical transfer of genetic material between different organisms, is considered a potentially important mechanism of genome evolution in eukaryotes. Using phylogenomic analyses of expressed sequence tag (EST)
Kahler1,2 Pathogenic meningococci have acquired a 24 kb capsule synthesis island (cps) by horizontal gene transfer which consists of a synthetic locus and associated capsule transport genes flanked by repetitive Regions D and D'. Regions D and D' contain an intact gene encoding a UDP-...
Microbiol. (June 2008) 48:228–242 Phylogeny vs genome reshuffling: horizontal gene transfer Sadhana Lal · Simrita Cheema · Vipin C. Kalia Received: 15 January 2008 / Accepted: 6 June 2008 Abstract The evolutionary events in organisms can be tracked to the transfer of genetic material. The...