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...
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...
Often it is difficult to decide whether conflicts between molecular phylogenies are due to actual events in evolution (horizontal gene transfer or gene duplications [see 2]), or due to artifacts generated during phylogenetic reconstruc- tion. For example, investigation of the maximum likelihood ...
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-...
In the present work, we now examine to which extent horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from host might account for the exceptional genome size of several families of large double stranded DNA viruses (LDVs) with genomes exceeding 150 kb in size. These viruses are found in a wide variety of vir...
Horizontal gene transfer has potential to confer immediate de novo adaptations to stress. We used comparative genomics of high quality de novo assemblies to identify structural differences in the genomes of nitrogen-fixing rhizobia that were isolated from a mercury (Hg) mine site that show high ...
“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...
OPEN SUBJECT AREAS: PLANT EVOLUTION MOLECULAR EVOLUTION PHYLOGENETICS PLANT STRESS RESPONSES Episodes of horizontal gene-transfer and gene-fusion led to co-existence of different metal-ion specific glyoxalase I Charanpreet Kaur1*{, Anchal Vishnoi3*{, Thilini Udayangani Ariyadasa1, Alok Bhattacharya2,...