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Gene Transfer, Horizontal

Known as: Gene Transfers, Lateral, Horizontal Gene Transfer, Lateral Gene Transfers 
The naturally occurring transmission of genetic information between organisms, related or unrelated, circumventing parent-to-offspring transmission… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Loss of two introns from the Magnolia tripetala mitochondrial cox2 gene implicates horizontal gene transfer and gene conversion as a novel mechanism of intron loss.
Intron loss is often thought to occur through retroprocessing, which is the reverse transcription and genomic integration of a… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Insights into plant biomass conversion from the genome of the anaerobic thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii DSM 6725
Caldicellulosiruptor bescii DSM 6725 utilizes various polysaccharides and grows efficiently on untreated high-lignin grasses and… 
2011
2011
Complete-fosmid and fosmid-end sequences reveal frequent horizontal gene transfers in marine uncultured planktonic archaea
The extent of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) among marine pelagic prokaryotes and the role that HGT may have played in their… 
2010
2010
CRISPR elements in the Thermococcales: evidence for associated horizontal gene transfer inPyrococcus furiosus
The presence and distribution of CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeat) elements in the archaeal order… 
2010
2010
An Evolutionary Analysis of Lateral Gene Transfer in Thymidylate Synthase Enzymes
Abstract Thymidylate synthases (Thy) are key enzymes in the synthesis of deoxythymidylate, 1 of the 4 building blocks of DNA. As… 
Review
2009
Review
2009
Role of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes and their plastids.
  • P. Keeling
  • Methods in molecular biology
  • 2009
  • Corpus ID: 19201812
Plastids are the organelles derived from a cyanobacterium through endosymbiosis. Unlike mitochondria, plastids are not found in… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Cohesion Group Approach for Evolutionary Analysis of TyrA, a Protein Family with Wide-Ranging Substrate Specificities
SUMMARY Many enzymes and other proteins are difficult subjects for bioinformatic analysis because they exhibit variant catalytic… 
2005
2005
Characterisation of the nitrile hydratase gene clusters of Rhodococcus erythropolis strains AJ270 and AJ300 and Microbacterium sp. AJ115 indicates horizontal gene transfer and reveals an insertion of…
The nitrile metabolising strains AJ270, AJ300 and AJ115 were isolated from the same location. The strains have very similar… 
2004
2004
Evolutionary Origins of Hsp90 Chaperones and a Deep Paralogy in their Bacterial Ancestors
Abstract The 82–90 kD family of molecular chaperone proteins has homologs in eukaryotes (Hsp90) and many eubacteria (HtpG) but… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Rubisco rules fall; gene transfer triumphs.
The most common form of the CO2-fixing enzyme rubisco is a form I enzyme, heretofore found universally in oxygenic phototrophs… 
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