Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

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Lateral gene transfer and the nature of bacterial innovation

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Phylogenetic Classification and the Universal Tree

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The Genome of the African Trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei

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Genome evolution in yeasts

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Endosymbiotic gene transfer: organelle genomes forge eukaryotic chromosomes

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The Genome Sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi , Etiologic Agent of Chagas Disease

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The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

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Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis , cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus

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Horizontal gene transfer among genomes: The complexity hypothesis

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The tangled past of eukaryotic enzymes involved in anaerobic metabolism

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Multiple roles of genome-attached bacteriophage terminal proteins

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Experimental Examination of EFL and MATX Eukaryotic Horizontal Gene Transfers: Coexistence of Mutually Exclusive Transcripts Predates Functional Rescue

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The Single Primary Endosymbiotic Event

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Nothing in Evolution Makes Sense Except in the Light of Genomics: Read–Write Genome Evolution as an Active Biological Process

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Lateral Gene Transfer in Evolution

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Co-option of bacteriophage lysozyme genes by bivalve genomes

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Effects of irradiance and temperature on the growth and feeding of the obligate mixotrophic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium smaydae

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Role of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Evolution of Photosynthetic Eukaryotes and Their Plastids

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The Plastid Terminal Oxidase is a Key Factor Balancing the Redox State of Thylakoid Membrane

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A public goods approach to major evolutionary innovations

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Trans-Kingdom Horizontal DNA Transfer from Bacteria to Yeast Is Highly Plastic Due to Natural Polymorphisms in Auxiliary Nonessential Recipient Genes

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Organelle Genomes of Epipogium roseum Provide Insight into the Evolution of Mycoheterotrophic Orchids

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Phylogenetic and syntenic data support a single horizontal transference to a Trypanosoma ancestor of a prokaryotic proline racemase implicated in parasite evasion from host defences

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Mitonuclear discordance as a confounding factor in the DNA taxonomy of monogonont rotifers

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Horizontal Gene Transfer has Impacted cox1 Gene Evolution in Cassytha filiformis

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Converting Ecological Currencies: Energy, Material, and Information Flows

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Detection of horizontal gene transfer in the genome of the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta

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Rhizospheric Communication through Mobile Genetic Element Transfers for the Regulation of Microbe–Plant Interactions

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Chromosomal‐level assembly of Bactericera cockerelli reveals rampant gene family expansions impacting genome structure, function and insect‐microbe‐plant‐interactions

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A widely distributed family of eukaryotic and bacterial deubiquitinases related to herpesviral large tegument proteins

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Evolution of Patchily Distributed Proteins Shared between Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes: Dictyostelium as a Case Study

Andersson, J. O. (2011) · Microbial Physiology · doi:10.1159/000324505 · Cited by 20

Horizontal gene transfer of a vertebrate vasodilatory hormone into ticks

Iwanaga, S., Isawa, H., & Yuda, M. (2014) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms4373 · Cited by 21

Horizontally transferred genes in the genome of Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei

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Contributions of Oxyrrhis marina to molecular biology, genomics and organelle evolution of dinoflagellates

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Emergence of plant vascular system: roles of hormonal and non-hormonal regulatory networks

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Widespread Inter- and Intra-Domain Horizontal Gene Transfer of d-Amino Acid Metabolism Enzymes in Eukaryotes

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HTT-DB: new features and updates

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The Mastigamoeba balamuthi Genome and the Nature of the Free-Living Ancestor of Entamoeba

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Horizontal Gene Transfer

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Discovery of common sequences absent in the human reference genome using pooled samples from next generation sequencing

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Genetic innovations: Transposable element recruitment and de novo formation lead to the birth of orphan genes in the rice genome

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Transcriptional Activity and Protein Levels of Horizontally Acquired Genes in Yeast Reveal Hallmarks of Adaptation to Fermentative Environments

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Profiles of Microbial Community and Antibiotic Resistome in Wild Tick Species

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Incompatibility and Interchangeability in Molecular Evolution

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A Review of the Host Plant Location and Recognition Mechanisms of Asian Longhorn Beetle

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Potential mobile units drive the horizontal transfer of phytoplasma effector phyllogen genes

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Lateral gene transfer generates accessory genes that accumulate at different rates within a grass lineage

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The interkingdom horizontal gene transfer in 44 early diverging fungi boosted their metabolic, adaptive, and immune capabilities

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Sanctuary : a Starship transposon facilitating the movement of the virulence factor ToxA in fungal wheat pathogens

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Genome evolution: extinction, continuation or explosion?

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HGT turbulence

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Vegetative Hyphal Fusion and Subsequent Nuclear Behavior in Epichloë Grass Endophytes

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A Novel Family of Terminal-Repeat Retrotransposon in Miniature (TRIM) in the Genome of the Red Harvester Ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus

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Physical shearing imparts biological activity to DNA and ability to transmit itself horizontally across species and kingdom boundaries

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The Vein Patterning 1 (VEP1) Gene Family Laterally Spread through an Ecological Network

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Microbial Symbionts of Insects: Genetic Organization, Adaptive Role, and Evolution

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Excision of endosymbiotic bacteria from yeast under aging and starvation stresses

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Discovery of Hyperactive Antifreeze Protein from Phylogenetically Distant Beetles Questions Its Evolutionary Origin

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Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Horizontal Transfer of Sailor (DD82E), a New Superfamily of IS630-Tc1-Mariner DNA Transposons

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Gut Microbiome as a Mediator of Stress Resilience: A Reactive Scope Model Framework

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Naegleria genus pangenome reveals new structural and functional insights into the versatility of these free-living amoebae

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Horizontally Transferred DNA in the Genome of the Fungus Pyricularia oryzae is Associated With Repressive Histone Modifications

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Rotating the Necker cube: A bioeconomic approach to cooperation and the causal role of synergy in evolution

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Widespread horizontal transfer of the cerato-ulmin gene between Ophiostoma novo-ulmi and Geosmithia species

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What Signatures Dominantly Associate with Gene Age?

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Evolutionary novelty in gravity sensing through horizontal gene transfer and high-order protein assembly

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Identification of the Gene sxtA (Domains sxtA1 and sxtA4) in Mexican Strains of Gymnodinium catenatum (Dinophyceae) and Their Evolution

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Duplication and expression of horizontally transferred polygalacturonase genes is associated with host range expansion of mirid bugs

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The structure, functional evolution, and evolutionary trajectories of the H+-PPase gene family in plants

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Toy models for macroevolutionary patterns and trends

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The voyage of the microbial eukaryote

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Horizontal gene transfer drives the evolution of Rh50 permeases in prokaryotes

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Genome of lethal Lepiota venenata and insights into the evolution of toxin-biosynthetic genes

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A Panicum‐derived chromosomal segment captured by Hordeum a few million years ago preserves a set of stress‐related genes

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Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution

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An intranuclear bacterial parasite of deep-sea mussels expresses apoptosis inhibitors acquired from its host

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The Evolutionary Fate of the Horizontally Transferred Agrobacterial Mikimopine Synthase Gene in the Genera Nicotiana and Linaria

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Biochemical and Structural Characterizations of Two Dictyostelium Cellobiohydrolases from the Amoebozoa Kingdom Reveal a High Level of Conservation between Distant Phylogenetic Trees of Life

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Diversity and Mechanisms of Genomic Adaptation in Penicillium

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Biological Soil Crusts and Extremophiles Adjacent to Native Plants at Sabkhas and Rawdahs, Qatar: The Possible Roles

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Phylogenetic analyses of the genes involved in carotenoid biosynthesis in algae

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Alternative characterizations of Fitch’s xenology relation

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Divergent bacterial transformation exerted by soil minerals

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Root of Dictyostelia based on 213 universal proteins

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Role of horizontal gene transfer and cooperation in rhizosphere microbiome assembly

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De Novo Gene Birth, Horizontal Gene Transfer, and Gene Duplication as Sources of New Gene Families Associated with the Origin of Symbiosis inAmanita

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Experimental Evolution Expands the Breadth of Adaptation to an Environmental Gradient Correlated With Genome Reduction

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Research progress on horizontal gene transfer and its functions in insects

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DNA sequencing and predictions of the cosmic theory of life

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Circulating nucleic acids: a new class of physiological mobile genetic elements

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Stochastic analysis of emergence of evolutionary cyclic behavior in population dynamics with transfer

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LEMON: a method to construct the local strains at horizontal gene transfer sites in gut metagenomics

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Diatoms and Their Microbiomes in Complex and Changing Polar Oceans

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Is a General Theory of Life Possible? Seeking the Nature of Life in the Context of a Single Example

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FastNet: Fast and Accurate Statistical Inference of Phylogenetic Networks Using Large-Scale Genomic Sequence Data

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Genome Stability

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