Tree of life
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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
Horizontal transfer of nuclear DNA in transmissible cancer.
#Cancer #TransmissibleCancer #HorizontalGeneTransfer #HGT #CanineTransmissibleVeneralTumor #CTVT
Diatoms are ancestrally photosynthetic microalgae, but the genus Nitzschia has lost photosynthesis to become free-living secondary heterotrophs. This study shows how a single horizontal gene transfer from marine bacteria, followed by substantial gene duplication and neofunctionalization, led to alginate catabolism and access to a new ecological niche involving brown algal polysaccharides.
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."
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. Lily Peck of Imperial College London, U.K., reports these new findings in a study published December 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.
#Genetic analyses show how #symbiotic #bacteria in #termite #gut has changed over course of #evolution.
#microbiome #endomicrobia #genome #hgt #flagellates
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-genetic-analyses-symbiotic-bacteria-termite.html
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany, have analyzed the evolutionary development of symbiotic bacteria in the intestines of termites with regard to their metabolic capabilities.