ReviewGenes2017
Et tu, Brute? Not Even Intracellular Mutualistic Symbionts Escape Horizontal Gene Transfer.
Review in Genes, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Concurrent ecological and evolutionary processes contribute to mutualism breakdown between legumes and rhizobia.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Host species-specific gene expression by a widespread and flexible chemosynthetic symbiont.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Adaptations to nitrogen availability drive ecological divergence of chemosynthetic symbionts.PLoS genetics · 2024Article
- The gut symbiont Sphingomonas mediates imidacloprid resistance in the important agricultural insect pest Aphis gossypii Glover.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Phylogenetic reconciliation.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Pangenome Evolution in Environmentally Transmitted Symbionts of Deep-Sea Mussels Is Governed by Vertical Inheritance.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
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- Genome expansion in early eukaryotes drove the transition from lateral gene transfer to meiotic sex.eLife · 2020Article
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- Unity Makes Strength: A Review on Mutualistic Symbiosis in Representative Insect Clades.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
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Abstract
Many insect species maintain mutualistic relationships with endosymbiotic bacteria. In contrast to their free-living relatives, horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has traditionally been considered rare in long-term endosymbionts. Nevertheless, meta-omics exploration of certain symbiotic models has unveiled an increasing number of bacteria-bacteria and bacteria-host genetic transfers. The abundance and function of transferred loci suggest that HGT might play a major role in the evolution of the corresponding consortia, enhancing their adaptive value or buffering detrimental effects derived from the reductive evolution of endosymbionts' genomes. Here, we comprehensively review the HGT cases recorded to date in insect-bacteria mutualistic consortia, and discuss their impact on the evolutionary success of these associations.
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