Experimental Evolution of Bacillus subtilis Reveals the Evolutionary Dynamics of Horizontal Gene Transfer and Suggests Adaptive and Neutral Effects
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In this work, Slomka et al. have evolved the naturally competent B. subtilis in the lab, in the presence or absence of foreign genomic DNA. They examine the effects of foreign DNA acquisition on the growth.....
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Bacillus HGT can also occur via other mechanisms, including transformation-mediated processes.
“Indeed, Bacillus HGT can also occur via other mechanisms, including transformation-mediated processes [96, 104, 105].”
From Profiling the resistome and virulome of Bacillus strains used for probiotic-based sanitation: a multicenter WGS analysis (2025) · cites this paper as [96]
The absence of substantial genetic variability among genomes belonging to the same cluster was expected considering the period of sample collection and natural mutation rates of Bacillus.
“Considering the period of sample collection and the natural mutation rates of Bacillus [96, 97], the absence of substantial genetic variability among the genomes belonging to the same cluster was expected.”
From Profiling the resistome and virulome of Bacillus strains used for probiotic-based sanitation: a multicenter WGS analysis (2025) · cites this paper as [96]
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- Authors
- Slomka, S., Françoise, I., Hornung, G., Asraf, O., Biniashvili, T., Pilpel, Y., & Dahan, O.
- Affiliations
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Pilpel, Yitzhak
- Venue
- Genetics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2020-10-01
- Volume
- 216
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 543-558
- ISSN
- 0016-6731 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-2631
- PMC
- PMC7536860
- OpenAlex
- W3080524988
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 2.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Licence
- academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model (vor)
- Locations
- Genetics (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Keywords
- horizontal gene transfer, Bacillus subtilis, experimental evolution, genome evolution, integration hotspots, spontaneous mutation, flagellar proteins, adaptive evolution, neutral evolution, bacterial genomes
- MeSH terms
- Bacillus subtilis, Selection, Genetic, Directed Molecular Evolution, Gene Transfer, Horizontal, Salt Tolerance
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