Horizontal gene transfer of a bacterial insect toxin gene into the Epichloë fungal symbionts of grasses

Nomenclatural realignment of Neotyphodium species with genus Epichloë

(2014) Adrian Leuchtmann et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Gene make-up: rapid and massive intron gains after horizontal transfer of a bacterial α-amylase gene to Basidiomycetes

(2013) Jean-Luc Da Lage et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Batch production of a silk-elastin-like protein in E. coli BL21(DE3): key parameters for optimisation

(2013) Tony Collins et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Examining new phylogenetic markers to uncover the evolutionary history of early-diverging fungi: comparing MCM7, TSR1 and rRNA genes for single- and multi-gene analyses of the Kickxellomycotina

(2013) E.D. Tretter et al.   PERSOONIA

The genome of the mustard leaf beetle encodes two active xylanases originally acquired from bacteria through horizontal gene transfer

(2013) Y. Pauchet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plant-Symbiotic Fungi as Chemical Engineers: Multi-Genome Analysis of the Clavicipitaceae Reveals Dynamics of Alkaloid Loci

(2013) Christopher L. Schardl et al.   PLoS Genetics

Currencies of Mutualisms: Sources of Alkaloid Genes in Vertically Transmitted Epichloae

(2013) Christopher Schardl et al.   Toxins

Evolutionary Implications of Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2012) Michael Syvanen   Annual Review of Genetics

GECA: a fast tool for gene evolution and conservation analysis in eukaryotic protein families

(2012) N. Fawal et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Oral insecticidal activity of plant-associated pseudomonads

(2012) Beat Ruffner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Taxonomic placement of Epichloë poae sp. nov. and horizontal dissemination to seedlings via conidia

(2012) Mariusz Tadych et al.   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Recurrent Horizontal Transfer of Bacterial Toxin Genes to Eukaryotes

(2012) Y. Moran et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Chromatin replication and epigenome maintenance

(2012) Constance Alabert et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

SOLiD-SAGE of Endophyte-Infected Red Fescue Reveals Numerous Effects on Host Transcriptome and an Abundance of Highly Expressed Fungal Secreted Proteins

(2012) Karen V. Ambrose et al.   PLoS One

Adaptive horizontal transfer of a bacterial gene to an invasive insect pest of coffee

(2012) R. Acuna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative Genomics of Plant-Associated Pseudomonas spp.: Insights into Diversity and Inheritance of Traits Involved in Multitrophic Interactions

(2012) Joyce E. Loper et al.   PLoS Genetics

Molecular evolution of urea amidolyase and urea carboxylase in fungi

(2011) Pooja K Strope et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Horizontal gene transfer in fungi

(2011) David A. Fitzpatrick   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Chemotypic diversity of epichloae, fungal symbionts of grasses

(2011) Christopher L. Schardl et al.   Fungal Ecology

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Structural determinants for membrane insertion, pore formation and translocation of Clostridium difficile toxin B

(2011) Selda Genisyuerek et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Leaf Symbiosis in Angiosperms: Host Specificity without Co-Speciation

(2011) Benny Lemaire et al.   PLoS One

Pseudomonas protegens sp. nov., widespread plant-protecting bacteria producing the biocontrol compounds 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol and pyoluteorin

(2011) Alban Ramette et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Gene transfer into the fungi

(2011) Thomas A. Richards et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Testing the phylogenetic utility of MCM7 in the Ascomycota

(2011) Huzefa Raja et al.   MycoKeys

New primers for promising single-copy genes in fungal phylogenetics and systematics

(2009) I. Schmitt et al.   PERSOONIA

Acquisition of prokaryotic genes by fungal genomes

(2009) Marina Marcet-Houben et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Clavicipitaceous endophytes: Their ability to enhance resistance of grasses to multiple stresses

(2008) G. Kuldau et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Funybase: a Fungal phylogenomic database

(2008) Sylvain Marthey et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Molecular analysis of a novel gene cluster encoding an insect toxin in plant-associated strains ofPseudomonas fluorescens

(2008) Maria Péchy-Tarr et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Large multi-gene phylogenetic trees of the grasses (Poaceae): Progress towards complete tribal and generic level sampling

(2008) Yanis Bouchenak-Khelladi et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The oldest fossil evidence of animal parasitism by fungi supports a Cretaceous diversification of fungal–arthropod symbioses

(2008) Gi-Ho Sung et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Diverged Copies of the Seed Regulatory Opaque-2 Gene by a Segmental Duplication in the Progenitor Genome of Rice, Sorghum, and Maize

(2008) Jian-Hong Xu et al.   Molecular Plant

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

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

Assessing the Performance of Single-Copy Genes for Recovering Robust Phylogenies

(2008) G. Aguileta et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Novel Test for Host-Symbiont Codivergence Indicates Ancient Origin of Fungal Endophytes in Grasses

(2008) C. L. Schardl et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY