Mechanisms of, and barriers to, horizontal gene transfer between bacteria

CM Thomas, KM Nielsen - Nature reviews microbiology, 2005 - nature.com
Mutation and horizontal gene transfer (HGT) continually give rise to new bacterial
genotypes. Infrequently, such new bacterial genotypes establish and spread in the larger …

Microbe–plant interactions: principles and mechanisms

BJJ Lugtenberg, TFC Chin-A-Woeng… - Antonie Van …, 2002 - Springer
The present status of research on the molecular basis of microbe–plant interactions is
discussed. Principles and mechanisms which play a role in the interactions of microbial …

Advances in Rhizobium research

A Sessitsch, JG Howieson, X Perret… - Critical Reviews in …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Referee: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Werner, FG Zellbiologie und Angewandte Botanik, Fachbereich
Biologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse, D-35032 Marburg, Germany …

The symbiosome: legume and rhizobia co-evolution toward a nitrogen-fixing organelle?

T Coba de la Pena, E Fedorova, JJ Pueyo… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In legume nodules, symbiosomes containing endosymbiotic rhizobial bacteria act as
temporary plant organelles that are responsible for nitrogen fixation, these bacteria develop …

The partitioned Rhizobium etli genome: Genetic and metabolic redundancy in seven interacting replicons

V González, RI Santamaría, P Bustos… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
We report the complete 6,530,228-bp genome sequence of the symbiotic nitrogen fixing
bacterium Rhizobium etli. Six large plasmids comprise one-third of the total genome size …

Mechanism of chromosomal transfer of Enterococcus faecalis pathogenicity island, capsule, antimicrobial resistance, and other traits

JM Manson, LE Hancock… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The Enterococcus faecalis pathogenicity island (PAI) encodes known virulence traits and>
100 additional genes with unknown roles in enterococcal biology. Phage-related integration …

Genome-Wide Stochastic Adaptive DNA Amplification at Direct and Inverted DNA Repeats in the Parasite Leishmania

JM Ubeda, F Raymond, A Mukherjee, M Plourde… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Gene amplification of specific loci has been described in all kingdoms of life. In the
protozoan parasite Leishmania, the product of amplification is usually part of …

Genomes of the symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria of legumes

AM MacLean, TM Finan, MJ Sadowsky - Plant physiology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Over the last several decades, there have been a large number of studies done on the
genetics, biochemistry, physiology, ecology, and agronomics of the bacteria forming …

The mosaic structure of the symbiotic plasmid of Rhizobium etliCFN42 and its relation to other symbiotic genome compartments

V González, P Bustos, MA Ramírez-Romero… - Genome biology, 2003 - Springer
Background Symbiotic bacteria known as rhizobia interact with the roots of legumes and
induce the formation of nitrogen-fixing nodules. In rhizobia, essential genes for symbiosis …

Flavonoids induce temporal shifts in gene‐expression of nod‐box controlled loci in Rhizobium sp. NGR234

H Kobayashi, YN Graven, WJ Broughton… - Molecular …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Rhizobia, soil bacteria of the Rhizobiales, enter the roots of homologous legumes, where
they induce the formation of nitrogen‐fixing nodules. Signals emanating from both symbiotic …