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Bipartite Network Analysis of Gene Sharings in the Microbial World

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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 899-913

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy001

Keywords

microbial evolution; bipartite graph; virus; network

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  1. ERC [615274]
  2. European Research Council (ERC) [615274] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)

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Extensive microbial gene flows affect how we understand virology, microbiology, medical sciences, genetic modification, and evolutionary biology. Phylogenies only provide a narrow view of these gene flows: plasmids and viruses, lacking core genes, cannot be attached to cellular life on phylogenetic trees. Yet viruses and plasmids have a major impact on cellular evolution, affecting both the gene content and the dynamics of microbial communities. Using bipartite graphs that connect up to 149,000 clusters of homologous genes with 8,217 related and unrelated genomes, we can in particular show patterns of gene sharing that do not map neatly with the organismal phylogeny. Homologous genes are recycled by lateral gene transfer, and multiple copies of homologous genes are carried by otherwise completely unrelated (and possibly nested) genomes, that is, viruses, plasmids and prokaryotes. When a homologous gene is present on at least one plasmid or virus and at least one chromosome, a process of gene externalization, affected by a postprocessed selected functional bias, takes place, especially in Bacteria. Bipartite graphs give us a view of vertical and horizontal gene flow beyond classic taxonomy on a single very large, analytically tractable, graph that goes beyond the cellular Web of Life.

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