ReviewJournal of molecular evolution2015
The Turbulent Network Dynamics of Microbial Evolution and the Statistical Tree of Life.
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- Role of horizontal gene transfer and cooperation in rhizosphere microbiome assembly.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2025Review
- Evolving Perspective on the Origin and Diversification of Cellular Life and the Virosphere.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Review
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- Gene Transfer Agents in Symbiotic Microbes.Results and problems in cell differentiation · 2020Review
- Gene gain and loss push prokaryotes beyond the homologous recombination barrier and accelerate genome sequence divergence.Nature communications · 2019Article
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- Alignment-free inference of hierarchical and reticulate phylogenomic relationships.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2019Review
- Giant Transposons in Eukaryotes: Is Bigger Better?Genome biology and evolution · 2019Review
- Thermosipho spp. Immune System Differences Affect Variation in Genome Size and Geographical Distributions.Genome biology and evolution · 2018Article
- On the networked architecture of genotype spaces and its critical effects on molecular evolution.Open biology · 2018Review
- Towards a Dynamic Interaction Network of Life to unify and expand the evolutionary theory.BMC biology · 2018Review
- Bipartite Network Analysis of Gene Sharings in the Microbial World.Molecular biology and evolution · 2018Article
- A phylogenomic study quantifies competing mechanisms for pseudogenization in prokaryotes-The Mycobacterium leprae case.PloS one · 2018Article
- Virulence factor activity relationships (VFARs): a bioinformatics perspective.Environmental science. Processes & impacts · 2017Review
- Multipartite viruses: adaptive trick or evolutionary treat?NPJ systems biology and applications · 2017Review
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Abstract
The wide spread and high rate of gene exchange and loss in the prokaryotic world translate into "network genomics". The rates of gene gain and loss are comparable with the rate of point mutations but are substantially greater than the duplication rate. Thus, evolution of prokaryotes is primarily shaped by gene gain and loss. These processes are essential to prevent mutational meltdown of microbial populations by stopping Muller's ratchet and appear to trigger emergence of major novel clades by opening up new ecological niches. At least some bacteria and archaea seem to have evolved dedicated devices for gene transfer. Despite the dominance of gene gain and loss, evolution of genes is intrinsically tree-like. The significant coherence between the topologies of numerous gene trees, particularly those for (nearly) universal genes, is compatible with the concept of a statistical tree of life, which forms the framework for reconstruction of the evolutionary processes in the prokaryotic world.
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