Gene Transfer, Horizontal

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Adsorption capacity of multiple DNA sources to clay minerals and environmental soil matrices less than previously estimated. 
  • Biological clocks and the coordination theory of RNA operons and regulons. 
  • Comparison of the evolutionary dynamics of symbiotic and housekeeping loci: a case for the genetic coherence of rhizobial lineages. 
  • Contribution of horizontal gene transfer to the evolution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 
  • DNA damage responses in prokaryotes: regulating gene expression, modulating growth patterns, and manipulating replication forks. 
  • Dissecting the effects of antibiotics on horizontal gene transfer: Analysis suggests a critical role of selection dynamics. 
  • Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome. 
  • Emancipating Chlamydia: Advances in the Genetic Manipulation of a Recalcitrant Intracellular Pathogen. 
  • Environmental and genetic determinants of plasmid mobility in pathogenic Escherichia coli. 
  • Exploring syntenic conservation across genomes for phylogenetic studies of organisms subjected to horizontal gene transfers: A case study with Cyanobacteria and cyanolichens. 
  • Functional Advantages of Porphyromonas gingivalis Vesicles. 
  • Functionality of the TOL plasmid under varying environmental conditions following conjugal transfer. 
  • Genetic bioaugmentation as an effective method for in situ bioremediation: functionality of catabolic plasmids following conjugal transfers. 
  • Genome sequencing and comparative analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain YJM789. 
  • Genomic erosion and extensive horizontal gene transfer in gut-associated Acetobacteraceae. 
  • Genus-Wide Comparative Genomics of Malassezia Delineates Its Phylogeny, Physiology, and Niche Adaptation on Human Skin. 
  • HGT in the human and skin commensal Malassezia: A bacterially derived flavohemoglobin is required for NO resistance and host interaction. 
  • High-throughput genome sequencing of lichenizing fungi to assess gene loss in the ammonium transporter/ammonia permease gene family. 
  • Horizontal gene transfer enables programmable gene stability in synthetic microbiota. 
  • Horizontal transfer of an adaptive chimeric photoreceptor from bryophytes to ferns 
  • Incorporation of a horizontally transferred gene into an operon during cnidarian evolution. 
  • Intra- and interpopulation transposition of mobile genetic elements driven by antibiotic selection. 
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: an evolving pathogen. 
  • Multiple horizontal gene transfers of ammonium transporters/ammonia permeases from prokaryotes to eukaryotes: toward a new functional and evolutionary classification. 
  • Predicting plasmid persistence in microbial communities by coarse-grained modeling. 
  • Properties affecting transfer and expression of degradative plasmids for the purpose of bioremediation. 
  • Punctuated evolution and transitional hybrid network in an ancestral cell cycle of fungi. 
  • Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion. 
  • Recent evolution of the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans by intervarietal transfer of a 14-gene fragment. 
  • Regulation of mammalian horizontal gene transfer by apoptotic DNA fragmentation. 
  • The lichen symbiosis re-viewed through the genomes of Cladonia grayi and its algal partner Asterochloris glomerata. 
  • The rate and pattern of cladogenesis in microbes. 
  • The reacquisition of biotin prototrophy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae involved horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication and gene clustering. 
  • Vertical and horizontal gene transfer tradeoffs direct plasmid fitness. 
  • Widespread recombination throughout Wolbachia genomes. 
  • p38 Mitogen-activated protein kinase mediates a negative inotropic effect in cardiac myocytes.