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We show that upon grafting-a mechanism of plant-plant interaction that is widespread in nature-entire nuclear genomes can be transferred between plant cells. We provide direct evidence for this process resulting in speciation by creating a new allopolyploid plant species from a herbaceous species ...
Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) is beneficial to a cell if the acquired gene confers a useful function, but is detrimental if the gene has no function, if it is incompatible with existing genes, or if it is a selfishly replicating mobile element. If the balance of these effects is beneficial...
Horizontal gene transfer is a potential confounding factor in inferring phylogenetic trees based on the sequence of one gene. [36] For example, given two distantly related bacteria that have exchanged a gene a phylogenetic tree including those species will show them to be closely related because th...
We demonstrate that HGT can drive metazoan evolution by uncovering its prominent role in the adaptations of arthropods to exploit plants. 展开 关键词: arthropods horizontal gene transfer herbivory DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw119 被引量: 26 年份: 2016 ...
Given that up to 25% of the yeast mitochondrial genome is composed of introns and most mitochondrial introns are group I introns, horizontal transfer and gene conversion could have served as an important mechanism in introducing mitochondrial intron diversity, promoting intron mobility and consequently ...
The presence of free DNA in many environments suggests that the potential for transformation is widespread. It is likely that this chapter discovers that not only is horizontal gene transfer more widespread than we now can document but that the themes and variations in its mechanisms are much ...
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a dominant genetic mechanism for disseminating novel traits, including antibiotic resistance, among microbial species and populations1,2. Conjugative and broad-host-range (BHR) plasmids are especially important for the transfer of genes between phylogenetically distant bac...
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the movement of heritable materials between distantly related organisms, is crucial in eukaryotic evolution. However, the scale of HGT in choanoflagellates, the closest unicellular relatives of metazoans, and its possible roles in the evolution of animal multicellularity...
The diatom chloroplast genomes sequenced to date show a high degree of similarity, but some examples of gene replacement or introduction of genes through horizontal gene transfer are known. The evolutionary origin of the gene transfers is unclear. We have sequenced and characterised the complete ...