Premise of the study: Parasites with large geographic ranges, and different hosts in parts of their range, might acquire horizontally-transferred genes (HGTs), which might sometimes leave a footpri
a)Natural transformation assays were performed with purified DNA as donor source, except in the experiments with the various donor species and A. baylyi BD413 recipient bacteria, where supernatants of
Ages of major lineages, species groups and subgroups estimated by BEAST. Important ages with 95% highest posterior densities. Refer to Figure 2 to identify nodes.Ages of Major Lineages.
Recent studies have suggested that plant genomes have undergone potentially rampant horizontal gene transfer (HGT), especially in the mitochondrial genome. Parasitic plants have provided the strongest
We aim to study effects of an Integrative and Conjugative Element (ICE) on a host during horizontal transmission. To this end, we analyze genome-wide transcriptome differences in Pseudomonas putida st