Recurrent Horizontal Transfer of Bacterial Toxin Genes to Eukaryotes

Horizontal gene transfer of microbial cellulases into nematode genomes is associated with functional assimilation and gene turnover

(2011) Werner E Mayer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Parasporins from a Caribbean Island: Evidence for a Globally Dispersed Bacillus thuringiensis Strain

(2011) Eric Gonzalez et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Rampant Horizontal Transfer of SPIN Transposons in Squamate Reptiles

(2011) C. Gilbert et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The NCBI Taxonomy database

(2011) S. Federhen   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Interactive Tree Of Life v2: online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy

(2011) I. Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Extending the Aerolysin Family: From Bacteria to Vertebrates

(2011) Pawel Szczesny et al.   PLoS One

Morphological and Molecular Analysis of the Nematostella vectensis Cnidom

(2011) Claudia Zenkert et al.   PLoS One

Horizontal gene transfer between bacteria and animals

(2011) Julie C. Dunning Hotopp   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Phylogeny and biogeography of Hydra (Cnidaria: Hydridae) using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

(2010) D.E. Martínez et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The dynamic genome of Hydra

(2010) Jarrod A. Chapman et al.   NATURE

Lateral acquisition of genes is affected by the friendliness of their products

(2010) U. Gophna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lateral Transfer of Genes from Fungi Underlies Carotenoid Production in Aphids

(2010) N. A. Moran et al.   SCIENCE

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Functional and ecological impacts of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes

(2009) Patrick J Keeling   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Clostridial toxins

(2009) Michel R Popoff et al.   Future Microbiology

Pore-Forming Activity of Alpha-Toxin Is Essential for Clostridium septicum-Mediated Myonecrosis

(2009) C. L. Kennedy et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

An actinoporin plays a key role in water stress in the mossPhyscomitrella patens

(2009) Quoc Truong Hoang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evolution of GHF5 endoglucanase gene structure in plant-parasitic nematodes: no evidence for an early domain shuffling event

(2008) Tina Kyndt et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Gene content of LUCA, the last universal common ancestor

(2008) Arcady Mushegian   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Sequencing and Diversity Analyses Reveal Extensive Similarities between Some Epsilon-Toxin-Encoding Plasmids and the pCPF5603 Clostridium perfringens Enterotoxin Plasmid

(2008) K. Miyamoto et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

(2008) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Repeated horizontal transfer of a DNA transposon in mammals and other tetrapods

(2008) J. K. Pace et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Massive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bdelloid Rotifers

(2008) E. A. Gladyshev et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of complex structures: minicollagens shape the cnidarian nematocyst

(2008) Charles N. David et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Osmotically driven prey disintegration in the gastrovascular cavity of the green hydra by a pore-forming protein

(2007) Daniel Sher et al.   FASEB JOURNAL