Computational and phylogenetic validation of nematode horizontal gene transfer

Sequencing of expressed genes has shown that nematodes, particularly the plant-parasitic nematodes, have genes purportedly acquired from other kingdoms by horizontal gene transfer. The prevailing orthodoxy is that such transfer has been a driving force in the evolution of niche specificity, and a re...

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Autores principales: Scholl, Elizabeth H, Bird, David McK
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21342537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-9
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description Sequencing of expressed genes has shown that nematodes, particularly the plant-parasitic nematodes, have genes purportedly acquired from other kingdoms by horizontal gene transfer. The prevailing orthodoxy is that such transfer has been a driving force in the evolution of niche specificity, and a recent paper in BMC Evolutionary Biology that presents a detailed phylogenetic analysis of cellulase genes in the free-living nematode Pristionchus pacificus at the species, genus and family levels substantiates this hypothesis. See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/13
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spelling pubmed-30429892011-02-23 Computational and phylogenetic validation of nematode horizontal gene transfer Scholl, Elizabeth H Bird, David McK BMC Biol Commentary Sequencing of expressed genes has shown that nematodes, particularly the plant-parasitic nematodes, have genes purportedly acquired from other kingdoms by horizontal gene transfer. The prevailing orthodoxy is that such transfer has been a driving force in the evolution of niche specificity, and a recent paper in BMC Evolutionary Biology that presents a detailed phylogenetic analysis of cellulase genes in the free-living nematode Pristionchus pacificus at the species, genus and family levels substantiates this hypothesis. See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/13 BioMed Central 2011-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3042989/ /pubmed/21342537 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-9 Text en Copyright ©2011 Scholl and Bird; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Scholl, Elizabeth H
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Computational and phylogenetic validation of nematode horizontal gene transfer
title Computational and phylogenetic validation of nematode horizontal gene transfer
title_full Computational and phylogenetic validation of nematode horizontal gene transfer
title_fullStr Computational and phylogenetic validation of nematode horizontal gene transfer
title_full_unstemmed Computational and phylogenetic validation of nematode horizontal gene transfer
title_short Computational and phylogenetic validation of nematode horizontal gene transfer
title_sort computational and phylogenetic validation of nematode horizontal gene transfer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21342537
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