ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2020
Patterns and impacts of nonvertical evolution in eukaryotes: a paradigm shift.
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- On the impact of incomplete taxon sampling on the relative timing of gene transfer events.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Eukaryotic CD-NTase, STING, and viperin proteins evolved via domain shuffling, horizontal transfer, and ancient inheritance from prokaryotes.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Eukaryotic antiviral immune proteins arose via convergence, horizontal transfer, and ancient inheritance.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Shaping eukaryotic epigenetic systems by horizontal gene transfer.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2023Article
- Conceptual risk assessment of mosquito population modification gene-drive systems to control malaria transmission: preliminary hazards list workshops.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- JLOH: Inferring loss of heterozygosity blocks from sequencing data.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023Article
- hgtseq: A Standard Pipeline to Study Horizontal Gene Transfer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Epigenetic influences of mobile genetic elements on ciliate genome architecture and evolution.The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology · 2022Review
- Editorial: Genomic insights on fungal hybrids.Frontiers in fungal biology · 2022Article
- Species-Wide Transposable Element Repertoires Retrace the Evolutionary History of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Host.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
- The evolving species concepts used for yeasts: from phenotypes and genomes to speciation networks.Fungal diversity · 2021Review
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Abstract
Evolution of eukaryotic species and their genomes has been traditionally understood as a vertical process in which genetic material is transmitted from parents to offspring along a lineage, and in which genetic exchange is restricted within species boundaries. However, mounting evidence from comparative genomics indicates that this paradigm is often violated. Horizontal gene transfer and mating between diverged lineages blur species boundaries and challenge the reconstruction of evolutionary histories of species and their genomes. Nonvertical evolution might be more restricted in eukaryotes than in prokaryotes, yet it is not negligible and can be common in certain groups. Recognition of such processes brings about the need to incorporate this complexity into our models, as well as to conceptually reframe eukaryotic diversity and evolution. Here, I review the recent work from genomics studies that supports the effects of nonvertical modes of evolution including introgression, hybridization, and horizontal gene transfer in different eukaryotic groups. I then discuss emerging patterns and effects, illustrated by specific examples, that support the conclusion that nonvertical processes are often at the root of important evolutionary transitions and adaptations. I will argue that a paradigm shift is needed to naturally accommodate nonvertical processes in eukaryotic evolution.
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