ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2009
Horizontal gene transfer from extinct and extant lineages: biological innovation and the coral of life.
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- HGTs are not SPRs: In the Presence of Ghost Lineages, Series of Horizontal Gene Transfers do not Result in Series of Subtree Pruning and Regrafting.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
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- Evolution of Pyrrolysyl-tRNA Synthetase: From Methanogenesis to Genetic Code Expansion.Chemical reviews · 2024Review
- Enzymic recognition of amino acids drove the evolution of primordial genetic codes.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- Zombi: a phylogenetic simulator of trees, genomes and sequences that accounts for dead linages.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- LEMON: a method to construct the local strains at horizontal gene transfer sites in gut metagenomics.BMC bioinformatics · 2019Article
- Paleozoic diversification of terrestrial chitin-degrading bacterial lineages.BMC evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- tRNARNA biology · 2018Review
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- Biological action in Read-Write genome evolution.Interface focus · 2017Review
- Genetic cargo and bacterial species set the rate of vesicle-mediated horizontal gene transfer.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Origin of magnetotaxis: Vertical inheritance or horizontal transfer?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- The Landscape of the Emergence of Life.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Article
- The Astrobiology Primer v2.0.Astrobiology · 2016Review
- Structural Insights into the Polyphyletic Origins of Glycyl tRNA Synthetases.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2016Article
- Recent events dominate interdomain lateral gene transfers between prokaryotes and eukaryotes and, with the exception of endosymbiotic gene transfers, few ancient transfer events persist.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Which Phylogenetic Networks are Merely Trees with Additional Arcs?Systematic biology · 2015Article
- Horizontal gene transfer and genome evolution in Methanosarcina.BMC evolutionary biology · 2015Article
- Ancient horizontal gene transfer and the last common ancestors.BMC evolutionary biology · 2015Article
- The inference of gene trees with species trees.Systematic biology · 2015Review
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Abstract
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is often considered to be a source of error in phylogenetic reconstruction, causing individual gene trees within an organismal lineage to be incongruent, obfuscating the 'true' evolutionary history. However, when identified as such, HGTs between divergent organismal lineages are useful, phylogenetically informative characters that can provide insight into evolutionary history. Here, we discuss several distinct HGT events involving all three domains of life, illustrating the selective advantages that can be conveyed via HGT, and the utility of HGT in aiding phylogenetic reconstruction and in dating the relative sequence of speciation events. We also discuss the role of HGT from extinct lineages, and its impact on our understanding of the evolution of life on Earth. Organismal phylogeny needs to incorporate reticulations; a simple tree does not provide an accurate depiction of the processes that have shaped life's history.
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