ArticleMobile genetic elements2011
Microsporidia: Horizontal gene transfers in vicious parasites.
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- Laterally Transferred Gene Recruited as a Venom in Parasitoid Wasps.Molecular biology and evolution · 2016Article
- The Prediction and Validation of Small CDSs Expand the Gene Repertoire of the Smallest Known Eukaryotic Genomes.PloS one · 2015Article
- Microsporidian genomes harbor a diverse array of transposable elements that demonstrate an ancestry of horizontal exchange with metazoans.Genome biology and evolution · 2014Article
- Bacterial genome instability.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2014Review
- Extremely reduced levels of heterozygosity in the vertebrate pathogen Encephalitozoon cuniculi.Eukaryotic cell · 2013Article
- Reduction and expansion in microsporidian genome evolution: new insights from comparative genomics.Genome biology and evolution · 2013Article
- Microvesicles and intercellular communication in the context of parasitism.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2013Review
- The genome of the obligate intracellular parasite Trachipleistophora hominis: new insights into microsporidian genome dynamics and reductive evolution.PLoS pathogens · 2012Article
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Abstract
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites whose genomes have been shaped by an extreme lifestyle. Specifically, their obligate intracellular parasitism has resulted in the loss of many genes and biochemical pathways, but these reductive processes have been often offset by the acquisition of several genes by means of horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Until recently, these HGTs were all found to have derived from prokaryotic donors, but a recent study suggests that some species took advantage of this mechanism to acquire one gene from an animal, which they maintained in their genome for metabolic purposes. The gene encodes for a purine nucleoside phosphorylase, and shows a strong phylogenetic signal of arthropod origin. Here, we briefly review our current knowledge of HGTs discovered across microsporidian genomes and discuss the implications of the most recent findings in this research area for understanding the origin and evolution of this highly adapted group of intracellular parasites. A novel gene potentially transferred by means of HGT to one microsporidia is also reported.
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