ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2013
Widespread horizontal transfer of retrotransposons.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.
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- Ecological Niche Adaptations Influence Transposable Element Dynamics in Pollinating and Non-Pollinating Fig Wasps.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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- Multiple horizontal transfer events of a DNA transposon into turtles, fishes, and a frog.Mobile DNA · 2024Article
- Horizontal Transposon Transfer and Their Ecological Drivers: The Case of Flower-breeding Drosophila.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Article
- A draft of the genome of the Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2023Article
- Genome Evolution and the Future of Phylogenomics of Non-Avian Reptiles.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
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- On the Base Composition of Transposable Elements.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Characterization of transposable elements within the Bemisia tabaci species complex.Mobile DNA · 2022Article
- Geography-Dependent Horizontal Gene Transfer from Vertebrate Predators to Their Prey.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Molecular evolution and diversification of phytoene synthase (PSY) gene family.Genetics and molecular biology · 2022Article
- Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Horizontal Transfer ofBiology · 2021Article
- Horizontal Transfer of LTR Retrotransposons Contributes to the Genome Diversity ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
In higher organisms such as vertebrates, it is generally believed that lateral transfer of genetic information does not readily occur, with the exception of retroviral infection. However, horizontal transfer (HT) of protein coding repetitive elements is the simplest way to explain the patchy distribution of BovB, a long interspersed element (LINE) about 3.2 kb long, that has been found in ruminants, marsupials, squamates, monotremes, and African mammals. BovB sequences are a major component of some of these genomes. Here we show that HT of BovB is significantly more widespread than believed, and we demonstrate the existence of two plausible arthropod vectors, specifically reptile ticks. A phylogenetic tree built from BovB sequences from species in all of these groups does not conform to expected evolutionary relationships of the species, and our analysis indicates that at least nine HT events are required to explain the observed topology. Our results provide compelling evidence for HT of genetic material that has transformed vertebrate genomes.
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