Horizontal gene transfer, genome innovation and evolution

JP Gogarten, JP Townsend - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2005 - nature.com
To what extent is the tree of life the best representation of the evolutionary history of
microorganisms? Recent work has shown that, among sets of prokaryotic genomes in which …

Molecular mechanism of tumor cell immune escape mediated by CD24/Siglec-10

SS Yin, FH Gao - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Tumor immune escape is an important part of tumorigenesis and development. Tumor cells
can develop a variety of immunosuppressive mechanisms to combat tumor immunity …

eggNOG v4. 0: nested orthology inference across 3686 organisms

S Powell, K Forslund, D Szklarczyk… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
With the increasing availability of various 'omics data, high-quality orthology assignment is
crucial for evolutionary and functional genomics studies. We here present the fourth version …

The roles of segmental and tandem gene duplication in the evolution of large gene families in Arabidopsis thaliana

SB Cannon, A Mitra, A Baumgarten, ND Young… - BMC plant biology, 2004 - Springer
Abstract Background Most genes in Arabidopsis thaliana are members of gene families.
How do the members of gene families arise, and how are gene family copy numbers …

Prokaryotic evolution in light of gene transfer

JP Gogarten, WF Doolittle… - Molecular biology and …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Accumulating prokaryotic gene and genome sequences reveal that the exchange of genetic
information through both homology-dependent recombination and horizontal (lateral) gene …

Diverse alkane hydroxylase genes in microorganisms and environments

Y Nie, CQ Chi, H Fang, JL Liang, SL Lu, GL Lai… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
AlkB and CYP153 are important alkane hydroxylases responsible for aerobic alkane
degradation in bioremediation of oil-polluted environments and microbial enhanced oil …

Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses

O Zhaxybayeva, JP Gogarten - BMC genomics, 2002 - Springer
Background Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) played an important role in shaping microbial
genomes. In addition to genes under sporadic selection, HGT also affects housekeeping …

A phylogenomic data-driven exploration of viral origins and evolution

A Nasir, G Caetano-Anollés - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
The origin of viruses remains mysterious because of their diverse and patchy molecular and
functional makeup. Although numerous hypotheses have attempted to explain viral origins …

Algorithms for computing parsimonious evolutionary scenarios for genome evolution, the last universal common ancestor and dominance of horizontal gene transfer in …

BG Mirkin, TI Fenner, MY Galperin, EV Koonin - BMC evolutionary biology, 2003 - Springer
Background Comparative analysis of sequenced genomes reveals numerous instances of
apparent horizontal gene transfer (HGT), at least in prokaryotes, and indicates that lineage …

Combining bioinformatics and phylogenetics to identify large sets of single-copy orthologous genes (COSII) for comparative, evolutionary and systematic studies: a …

F Wu, LA Mueller, D Crouzillat, V Pétiard… - Genetics, 2006 - academic.oup.com
We report herein the application of a set of algorithms to identify a large number (2869) of
single-copy orthologs (COSII), which are shared by most, if not all, euasterid plant species …