A natural barrier to lateral gene transfer from prokaryotes to eukaryotes revealed from genomes: the 70 % rule

1,135 Genomes Reveal the Global Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2016) Carlos Alonso-Blanco et al.   CELL

Mitochondria, the Cell Cycle, and the Origin of Sex via a Syncytial Eukaryote Common Ancestor

(2016) Sriram G. Garg et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Evolution by gene loss

(2016) Ricard Albalat et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

A tale of two tardigrades

(2016) Thomas A. Richards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

No evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer in the genome of the tardigradeHypsibius dujardini

(2016) Georgios Koutsovoulos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pathogen to powerhouse

(2016) S. G. Ball et al.   SCIENCE

Ten years of pan-genome analyses

(2015) George Vernikos et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Prokaryotic genes in eukaryotic genome sequences: when to infer horizontal gene transfer and when to suspect an actual microbe

(2015) Irena I. Artamonova et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Insights from 20 years of bacterial genome sequencing

(2015) Miriam Land et al.   FUNCTIONAL & INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS

Metabolic Coevolution in the Bacterial Symbiosis of Whiteflies and Related Plant Sap-Feeding Insects

(2015) Jun-Bo Luan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes

(2015) Chuan Ku et al.   NATURE

Endosymbiotic gene transfer from prokaryotic pangenomes: Inherited chimerism in eukaryotes

(2015) Chuan Ku et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade

(2015) Thomas C. Boothby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The genome of cultivated sweet potato containsAgrobacteriumT-DNAs with expressed genes: An example of a naturally transgenic food crop

(2015) Tina Kyndt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plastid establishment did not require a chlamydial partner

(2015) Daryl Domman et al.   Nature Communications

Expression of multiple horizontally acquired genes is a hallmark of both vertebrate and invertebrate genomes

(2015) Alastair Crisp et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Genomes in turmoil: quantification of genome dynamics in prokaryote supergenomes

(2014) Pere Puigbò et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Phylogenomic Study Indicates Widespread Lateral Gene Transfer in Entamoeba and Suggests a Past Intimate Relationship with Parabasalids

(2014) Jessica R. Grant et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The hybrid nature of the Eukaryota and a consilient view of life on Earth

(2014) James O. McInerney et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Horizontal gene transfer in the acquisition of novel traits by metazoans

(2014) Luis Boto   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What Was the Real Contribution of Endosymbionts to the Eukaryotic Nucleus? Insights from Photosynthetic Eukaryotes

(2014) D. Moreira et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Genome Sequence Analysis Indicates that the Model Eukaryote Nematostella vectensis Harbors Bacterial Consorts

(2013) Irena I. Artamonova et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

When peers are not peers and don't know it: The Dunning-Kruger effect and self-fulfilling prophecy in peer-review

(2013) Sui Huang   BIOESSAYS

Horizontal gene acquisitions by eukaryotes as drivers of adaptive evolution

(2013) Gerald Schönknecht et al.   BIOESSAYS

Gene Frequency Distributions Reject a Neutral Model of Genome Evolution

(2013) Alexander E. Lobkovsky et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life

(2013) Tom A. Williams et al.   NATURE

Metabolic Effectors Secreted by Bacterial Pathogens: Essential Facilitators of Plastid Endosymbiosis?

(2013) Steven G. Ball et al.   PLANT CELL

Gene Transfer from Bacteria and Archaea Facilitated Evolution of an Extremophilic Eukaryote

(2013) G. Schonknecht et al.   SCIENCE

Genomes of Stigonematalean Cyanobacteria (Subsection V) and the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis from Prokaryotes to Plastids

(2012) Tal Dagan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome

(2012) Ute Hentschel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Homologous recombination and its regulation

(2012) L. Krejci et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Cyanophora paradoxa Genome Elucidates Origin of Photosynthesis in Algae and Plants

(2012) D. C. Price et al.   SCIENCE

Widespread impact of horizontal gene transfer on plant colonization of land

(2012) Jipei Yue et al.   Nature Communications

Biochemical Diversification through Foreign Gene Expression in Bdelloid Rotifers

(2012) Chiara Boschetti et al.   PLoS Genetics

Trends and barriers to lateral gene transfer in prokaryotes

(2011) Ovidiu Popa et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

(2011) Ryan E. Mills et al.   NATURE

Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome

(2011) Chris S. Smillie et al.   NATURE

Horizontal Transfer, Not Duplication, Drives the Expansion of Protein Families in Prokaryotes

(2011) Todd J. Treangen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Strong functional patterns in the evolution of eukaryotic genomes revealed by the reconstruction of ancestral protein domain repertoires

(2011) Christian M Zmasek et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

DeltaProt: a software toolbox for comparative genomics

(2010) Steinar Thorvaldsen et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Molecular Poltergeists: Mitochondrial DNA Copies (numts) in Sequenced Nuclear Genomes

(2010) Einat Hazkani-Covo et al.   PLoS Genetics

Estimating the size of the bacterial pan-genome

(2009) Pascal Lapierre et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Homologous recombination in DNA repair and DNA damage tolerance

(2008) Xuan Li et al.   CELL RESEARCH

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

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

Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world

(2008) E. V. Koonin et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH