An automated approach for the identification of horizontal gene transfers from complete genomes reveals the rhizome of Rickettsiales

The SAR11 Group of Alpha-Proteobacteria Is Not Related to the Origin of Mitochondria

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The Genealogic Tree of Mycobacteria Reveals a Long-Standing Sympatric Life into Free-Living Protozoa

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The Rhizome of Life: The Sympatric Rickettsia felis Paradigm Demonstrates the Random Transfer of DNA Sequences

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

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

A Phylometagenomic Exploration of Oceanic Alphaproteobacteria Reveals Mitochondrial Relatives Unrelated to the SAR11 Clade

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Phylogenomic Analysis of Odyssella thessalonicensis Fortifies the Common Origin of Rickettsiales, Pelagibacter ubique and Reclimonas americana Mitochondrion

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Rickettsial evolution in the light of comparative genomics

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The contribution of mobile genetic elements to the evolution and ecology of Vibrios

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Amoeba/Amoebal Symbiont Genetic Transfers: Lessons from Giant Virus Neighbours

(2010) Vincent Thomas et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

Amoebae as Genitors and Reservoirs of Giant Viruses

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Unprecedented levels of horizontal gene transfer among spatially co-occurring Shewanella bacteria from the Baltic Sea

(2010) Alejandro Caro-Quintero et al.   ISME Journal

The post-Darwinist rhizome of life

(2010) Didier Raoult   LANCET

Networks of Gene Sharing among 329 Proteobacterial Genomes Reveal Differences in Lateral Gene Transfer Frequency at Different Phylogenetic Depths

(2010) T. Kloesges et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion

(2010) Lawrence A. David et al.   NATURE

Shewanella spp. Genomic Evolution for a Cold Marine Lifestyle and In-Situ Explosive Biodegradation

(2010) Jian-Shen Zhao et al.   PLoS One

Massive comparative genomic analysis reveals convergent evolution of specialized bacteria

(2009) Vicky Merhej et al.   Biology Direct

Horizontal gene transfer between Wolbachia and the mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2009) Lisa Klasson et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A hidden reservoir of integrative elements is the major source of recently acquired foreign genes and ORFans in archaeal and bacterial genomes

(2009) Diego Cortez et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

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

(2007) N. Nikoh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH