The hologenome concept of evolution after 10 years

E Rosenberg, I Zilber-Rosenberg - Microbiome, 2018‏ - Springer
The holobiont (host with its endocellular and extracellular microbiome) can function as a
distinct biological entity, an additional organismal level to the ones previously considered …

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes: aligning theory with data

PJ Keeling - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024‏ - nature.com
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or lateral gene transfer, is the non-sexual movement of
genetic information between genomes. It has played a pronounced part in bacterial and …

[HTML][HTML] Incongruence between gene trees and species trees and phylogenetic signal variation in plastid genes

DJP Goncalves, BB Simpson, EM Ortiz… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The current classification of angiosperms is based primarily on concatenated plastid
markers and maximum likelihood (ML) inference. This approach has been justified by the …

Horizontal gene transfer and endophytes: An implication for the acquisition of novel traits

P Tiwari, H Bae - Plants, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), an important evolutionary mechanism observed in
prokaryotes, is the transmission of genetic material across phylogenetically distant species …

Advances in monitoring soil microbial community dynamic and function

KK Nkongolo, R Narendrula-Kotha - Journal of applied genetics, 2020‏ - Springer
Microorganisms are vital to the overall ecosystem functioning, stability, and sustainability.
Soil fertility and health depend on chemical composition and also on the qualitative and …

Convergent horizontal gene transfer and cross-talk of mobile nucleic acids in parasitic plants

Z Yang, EK Wafula, G Kim, S Shahid, JR McNeal… - Nature Plants, 2019‏ - nature.com
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the movement and genomic integration of DNA across
species boundaries, is commonly associated with bacteria and other microorganisms, but …

Widespread occurrence of natural genetic transformation of plants by Agrobacterium

TV Matveeva, L Otten - Plant Molecular Biology, 2019‏ - Springer
Key message Naturally transgenic plant species occur on an unexpectedly large scale.
Abstract Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer leads to the formation of crown galls or hairy …

Horizontal gene transfer involving chloroplasts

E Filip, L Skuza - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT)-is defined as the acquisition of genetic material from another
organism. However, recent findings indicate a possible role of HGT in the acquisition of traits …

Genotype-dependent response of root microbiota and leaf metabolism in olive seedlings subjected to drought stress

R Azri, M Lamine, A Bensalem-Fnayou, Z Hamdi… - Plants, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Under stress or in optimum conditions, plants foster a specific guild of symbiotic microbes to
strengthen pivotal functions including metabolic regulation. Despite that the role of the plant …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive genomic analysis of Bacillus paralicheniformis strain BP9, pan-genomic and genetic basis of biocontrol mechanism

M Asif, Z Li-Qun, Q Zeng, M Atiq, K Ahmad… - Computational and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Many Bacillus species are essential antibacterial agents, but their antibiosis potential still
needs to be elucidated to its full extent. Here, we isolated a soil bacterium, BP9, which has …