ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2012
Lateral gene transfers have polished animal genomes: lessons from nematodes.
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- The Implication of Horizontal Gene Transfer BetweenPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- Master of Puppets: How Microbiota Drive the Nematoda Ecology and Evolution?Ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- Functional Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes Acquired by Horizontal Gene Transfer from Plants in the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Genome structure and content of the rice root-knot nematode (Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Enzymatic activity of a recombinant β-1,4-endoglucanase from the Cotton Boll Weevil (Anthonomus grandis) aiming second generation ethanol production.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Functional horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to eukaryotes.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2018Review
- Nothing in Evolution Makes Sense Except in the Light of Genomics: Read-Write Genome Evolution as an Active Biological Process.Biology · 2016Review
- Horizontal functional gene transfer from bacteria to fishes.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Microbial Speciation.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2015Review
- The genome and transcriptome of the zoonotic hookworm Ancylostoma ceylanicum identify infection-specific gene families.Nature genetics · 2015Article
- Signatures of adaptation to plant parasitism in nematode genomes.Parasitology · 2015Review
- Physiology of the read-write genome.The Journal of physiology · 2014Review
- Ordering microbial diversity into ecologically and genetically cohesive units.Trends in microbiology · 2014Review
- Horizontal gene transfer in the acquisition of novel traits by metazoans.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Review
- Root parasitic plant Orobanche aegyptiaca and shoot parasitic plant Cuscuta australis obtained Brassicaceae-specific strictosidine synthase-like genes by horizontal gene transfer.BMC plant biology · 2014Article
- Constraint and opportunity in genome innovation.RNA biology · 2014Review
- Microbial genomics challenge Darwin.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2012Article
- Contribution of lateral gene transfers to the genome composition and parasitic ability of root-knot nematodes.PloS one · 2012Article
- Lateral gene exchanges shape the genomes of amoeba-resisting microorganisms.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2012Review
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Abstract
It is now accepted that lateral gene transfers (LGT), have significantly contributed to the composition of bacterial genomes. The amplitude of the phenomenon is considered so high in prokaryotes that it challenges the traditional view of a binary hierarchical tree of life to correctly represent the evolutionary history of species. Given the plethora of transfers between prokaryotes, it is currently impossible to infer the last common ancestral gene set for any extant species. For this ensemble of reasons, it has been proposed that the Darwinian binary tree of life may be inappropriate to correctly reflect the actual relations between species, at least in prokaryotes. In contrast, the contribution of LGT to the composition of animal genomes is less documented. In the light of recent analyses that reported series of LGT events in nematodes, we discuss the importance of this phenomenon in the evolutionary history and in the current composition of an animal genome. Far from being neutral, it appears that besides having contributed to nematode genome contents, LGT have favored the emergence of important traits such as plant-parasitism.
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