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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Lateral transfers of large DNA fragments spread functional genes among grasses.

Luke T Dunning, Jill K Olofsson, Christian Parisod, Rimjhim Roy Choudhury, Jose J Moreno-Villena, Yang Yang, Jacqueline Dionora, W Paul Quick, Minkyu Park, Jeffrey L Bennetzen and 4 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

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55 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Luke T DunningAnimal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, S10 2TN Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Jill K OlofssonAnimal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, S10 2TN Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Christian ParisodInstitute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, 3013 Bern, Switzerland.
Rimjhim Roy ChoudhuryInstitute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, 3013 Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0499-4124
Jose J Moreno-VillenaAnimal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, S10 2TN Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Yang YangKunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650204 Yunnan, China.
Jacqueline DionoraSystems Physiology Cluster, International Rice Research Institute, 1301 Metro Manila, Philippines.
W Paul QuickAnimal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, S10 2TN Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Minkyu ParkDepartment of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.
Jeffrey L BennetzenDepartment of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.
Guillaume BesnardLaboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR5174), CNRS, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, F-31062 Toulouse, France.
Patrik NosilAnimal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, S10 2TN Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Colin P OsborneAnimal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, S10 2TN Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Pascal-Antoine ChristinAnimal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, S10 2TN Sheffield, United Kingdom; p.christin@sheffield.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J004243/1European Research Council 638333Medical Research Council MR/K001744/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A fundamental tenet of multicellular eukaryotic evolution is that vertical inheritance is paramount, with natural selection acting on genetic variants transferred from parents to offspring. This lineal process means that an organism's adaptive potential can be restricted by its evolutionary history, the amount of standing genetic variation, and its mutation rate. Lateral gene transfer (LGT) theoretically provides a mechanism to bypass many of these limitations, but the evolutionary importance and frequency of this process in multicellular eukaryotes, such as plants, remains debated. We address this issue by assembling a chromosome-level genome for the grass

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Genes, PlantGene Transfer, HorizontalChromosomes, PlantDNA, PlantPhylogenyPoaceaeDNA, Plantadaptationgenomehorizontal gene transferphylogeneticsPoaceae

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PMID30787193
PMCPMC6410850

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