The public goods hypothesis for the evolution of life on Earth

How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?

(2011) Maureen A O'Malley et al.   Biology Direct

Of woods and webs: possible alternatives to the tree of life for studying genomic fluidity in E. coli

(2011) Julie Beauregard-Racine et al.   Biology Direct

Intercellular Nanotubes Mediate Bacterial Communication

(2011) Gyanendra P. Dubey et al.   CELL

Mimivirus shows dramatic genome reduction after intraamoebal culture

(2011) M. Boyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Tree and Net Components of Prokaryote Evolution

(2010) Pere Puigbò et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Comparison of 61 Sequenced Escherichia coli Genomes

(2010) Oksana Lukjancenko et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Harvesting Evolutionary Signals in a Forest of Prokaryotic Gene Trees

(2010) K. Schliep et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Complexity Hypothesis Revisited: Connectivity Rather Than Function Constitutes a Barrier to Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2010) O. Cohen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion

(2010) Lawrence A. David et al.   NATURE

The energetics of genome complexity

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   NATURE

Integrative and conjugative elements: mosaic mobile genetic elements enabling dynamic lateral gene flow

(2010) Rachel A. F. Wozniak et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Transposases are the most abundant, most ubiquitous genes in nature

(2010) Ramy K. Aziz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Multiple lateral gene transfers and duplications have promoted plant parasitism ability in nematodes

(2010) Etienne G. J. Danchin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Eukaryotic genes of archaebacterial origin are more important than the more numerous eubacterial genes, irrespective of function

(2010) J. A. Cotton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High Frequency of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Oceans

(2010) L. D. McDaniel et al.   SCIENCE

Revisiting the concept of lineage in prokaryotes: a phylogenetic perspective

(2009) Yan Boucher et al.   BIOESSAYS

Trees and networks before and after Darwin

(2009) Mark A Ragan   Biology Direct

Getting a better picture of microbial evolution en route to a network of genomes

(2009) T. Dagan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Network analyses structure genetic diversity in independent genetic worlds

(2009) S. Halary et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Organised Genome Dynamics in the Escherichia coli Species Results in Highly Diverse Adaptive Paths

(2009) Marie Touchon et al.   PLoS Genetics

The tree of genomes: An empirical comparison of genome phylogeny reconstruction methods.

(2008) Angela McCann et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomes

(2008) Elizabeth A. Dinsdale et al.   NATURE

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

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

Tree of Life Based on Genome Context Networks

(2008) Guohui Ding et al.   PLoS One

Enzymes of the shikimic acid pathway encoded in the genome of a basal metazoan, Nematostella vectensis, have microbial origins

(2008) A. Starcevic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The convergence of carbohydrate active gene repertoires in human gut microbes

(2008) C. A. Lozupone et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The prokaryotic tree of life: past, present…and future?

(2008) James O. McInerney et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Wolbachia genome integrated in an insect chromosome: Evolution and fate of laterally transferred endosymbiont genes

(2007) N. Nikoh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH