ArticleMolecular genetics and genomics : MGG2008
Distant horizontal gene transfer is rare for multiple families of prokaryotic insertion sequences.
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- Transposase interaction with the β sliding clamp: effects on insertion sequence proliferation and transposition rate.Scientific reports · 2015Article
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- Spaces of the possible: universal Darwinism and the wall between technological and biological innovation.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2014Review
- Lateral transfers of insertion sequences between Wolbachia, Cardinium and Rickettsia bacterial endosymbionts.Heredity · 2013Article
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- Multiple inter-kingdom horizontal gene transfers in the evolution of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase gene family.PloS one · 2012Article
- Acinetobacter insertion sequence ISAba11 belongs to a novel family that encodes transposases with a signature HHEK motif.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2012Article
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Abstract
Horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes is rampant on short and intermediate evolutionary time scales. It poses a fundamental problem to our ability to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of life. Is it also frequent over long evolutionary distances? To address this question, we analyzed the evolution of 2,091 insertion sequences from all 20 major families in 438 completely sequenced prokaryotic genomes. Specifically, we mapped insertion sequence occurrence on a 16S rDNA tree of the genomes we analyzed, and we also constructed phylogenetic trees of the insertion sequence transposase coding sequences. We found only 30 cases of likely horizontal transfer among distantly related prokaryotic clades. Most of these horizontal transfer events are ancient. Only seven events are recent. Almost all of these transfer events occur between pairs of human pathogens or commensals. If true also for other, non-mobile DNA, the rarity of distant horizontal transfer increases the odds of reliable phylogenetic inference from sequence data.
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