ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2016
Horizontal Gene Transfer and the History of Life.
Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.
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56 citing papers in PubMed.
- Horizontal gene transfer in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other Saccharomycotina yeasts: a review.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026Review
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- In silico pathogenomics of draft metagenome-assembled genome of gut Enterobacter cloacae from a gastroenteritis patient exhibiting potential determinants of multi-drug resistance and virulence.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2025Article
- A Hydroxynaphthol Blue-Based Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for Closed-Tube Detection of the Streptomycin Resistance GeneVeterinary sciences · 2025Article
- Genetic exchange networks bridge mobile DNA vehicles in the bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Evolutionary relationships and genetic diversity in theBiochemistry and biophysics reports · 2025Article
- Expanding the σ54-dependent transcription process with orthogonal designs.Nucleic acids research · 2025Article
- Discovery of mono-ADP ribosylating toxins with high structural homology to Pseudomonas exotoxin A.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Raiding nature's genetic toolbox for UV-C resistance by functional metagenomics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Mobile genetic elements and wastewater treatment: contaminants of emerging concern, climate change, and trophic transmission.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- Genetic Characterization of a Novel Retron Element Isolated from Vibrio mimicus.Microbiology and immunology · 2025Article
- An Overview of Lsr2 Repressor Effect inMicroorganisms · 2024Article
- Control of a gene transfer agent cluster in Caulobacter crescentus by transcriptional activation and anti-termination.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes: aligning theory with data.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2024Review
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- Interactions of Gram-Positive Bacterial Membrane Vesicles and Hosts: Updates and Future Directions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Unraveling the evolutionary origin of theFrontiers in molecular biosciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Microbes acquire DNA from a variety of sources. The last decades, which have seen the development of genome sequencing, have revealed that horizontal gene transfer has been a major evolutionary force that has constantly reshaped genomes throughout evolution. However, because the history of life must ultimately be deduced from gene phylogenies, the lack of methods to account for horizontal gene transfer has thrown into confusion the very concept of the tree of life. As a result, many questions remain open, but emerging methodological developments promise to use information conveyed by horizontal gene transfer that remains unexploited today.
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