Tree of life
Vs
Network of life

Am enjoying David Mindell book in gene movements and biodiversity

#networkoflife #mindell #hgt #plasmids #Introgression #biodiversity #ecology #evolution #tree #phylogeny #book #bookstadon

Spatiotemporal Tracking of Three Novel Transposable Element Invasions in Drosophila melanogaster over the Last 30 Years.

#Transposons #Retrotransposons #TEinvasion #HorizontalTransposonTransfer #HGT #Drosophila

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/7/msaf143/8157961

Tannier et al. simulated horizontal gene transfer (HGT) with ghost lineages, finding that, when only 1% of potential donors are sampled, ca. 50% of SPR-inferred HGTs misidentify donors.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf128

#evobio #HGT

Horizontal transfer of nuclear DNA in transmissible cancer.

#Cancer #TransmissibleCancer #HorizontalGeneTransfer #HGT #CanineTransmissibleVeneralTumor #CTVT

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2424634122

Historical outbreaks of #CoffeeWilt disease linked to gene transfer from another fungus https://phys.org/news/2024-12-historical-outbreaks-coffee-wilt-disease.html

Horizontal transfers between fungal #Fusarium species contributed to successive outbreaks of #coffee wilt disease: Lily Peck et al. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002480

"The #fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to successive outbreaks of the disease."

#Fungi #PlantPathology #LGT #HGT #Evolution #Biology