The acetate switch

AJ Wolfe - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
To succeed, many cells must alternate between life-styles that permit rapid growth in the
presence of abundant nutrients and ones that enhance survival in the absence of those …

Lateral gene transfer in eukaryotes

JO Andersson - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences CMLS, 2005 - Springer
Lateral gene transfer–the transfer of genetic material between species–has been
acknowledged as a major mechanism in prokaryotic genome evolution for some time …

Draft Genome Sequencing of Giardia intestinalis Assemblage B Isolate GS: Is Human Giardiasis Caused by Two Different Species?

O Franzen, J Jerlström-Hultqvist, E Castro… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Giardia intestinalis is a major cause of diarrheal disease worldwide and two major Giardia
genotypes, assemblages A and B, infect humans. The genome of assemblage A parasite …

Genome fragment of Wolbachia endosymbiont transferred to X chromosome of host insect

N Kondo, N Nikoh, N Ijichi… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
The adzuki bean beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis, is triple-infected with distinct lineages of
Wolbachia endosymbiont, wBruCon, wBruOri, and wBruAus, which were identified by their …

Evidence for Acquisition of Legionella Type IV Secretion Substrates via Interdomain Horizontal Gene Transfer

KS de Felipe, S Pampou, OS Jovanovic… - Journal of …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Intracellular pathogens exploit host cell functions to create a replication niche inside
eukaryotic cells. The causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, the γ-proteobacterium …

The analysis of 100 genes supports the grouping of three highly divergent amoebae: Dictyostelium, Entamoeba, and Mastigamoeba

E Bapteste, H Brinkmann, JA Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
The phylogenetic relationships of amoebae are poorly resolved. To address this difficult
question, we have sequenced 1,280 expressed sequence tags from Mastigamoeba …

Genome sequence of the stramenopile Blastocystis, a human anaerobic parasite

F Denoeud, M Roussel, B Noel, I Wawrzyniak… - Genome biology, 2011 - Springer
Background Blastocystis is a highly prevalent anaerobic eukaryotic parasite of humans and
animals that is associated with various gastrointestinal and extraintestinal disorders …

Structure and content of the Entamoeba histolytica genome

CG Clark, UCM Alsmark, M Tazreiter… - Advances in …, 2007 - Elsevier
The intestinal parasite Entamoeba histolytica is one of the first protists for which a draft
genome sequence has been published. Although the genome is still incomplete, it is …

Phylogenetic analyses of diplomonad genes reveal frequent lateral gene transfers affecting eukaryotes

JO Andersson, ÅM Sjögren, LAM Davis, TM Embley… - Current Biology, 2003 - cell.com
Background: Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is an important evolutionary mechanism among
prokaryotes. The situation in eukaryotes is less clear; the human genome sequence failed to …

How big is the iceberg of which organellar genes in nuclear genomes are but the tip?

WF Doolittle, Y Boucher, CL Nesbø… - … of the Royal …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
As more and more complete bacterial and archaeal genome sequences become available,
the role of lateral gene transfer (LGT) in shaping them becomes more and more clear. Over …