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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
2014
Highly Cited
2014
A Bayesian method for analyzing lateral gene transfer.
Lateral gene transfer (LGT)--which transfers DNA between two non-vertically related individuals belonging to the same or… 
Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Spontaneously Induced Prophages in Lactobacillus gasseri Contribute to Horizontal Gene Transfer
ABSTRACT Lactobacillus gasseri is an endogenous species of the human gastrointestinal tract and vagina. With recent advances in… 
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… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Extent of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Evolution of Streptococci of the Salivarius Group
ABSTRACT The phylogenetically closely related species Streptococcus salivarius and Streptococcus vestibularis are oral bacteria… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Insights into extreme thermoacidophily based on genome analysis of Picrophilus torridus and other thermoacidophilic archaea.
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… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Sequences of isopenicillin N synthetase genes suggest horizontal gene transfer from prokaryotes to eukaryotes
Evolutionary distances between bacterial and fungal isopenicillin N synthetase (IPNS) genes have been compared to distances… 
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