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Horizontal gene transfer from Bacteria to rumen Ciliates indicates adaptation to their anaerobic, carbohydrates-rich environment

Guénola Ricard*, Neil R McEwan, Bas E Dutilh, Jean-Pierre Jouany, Didier Macheboeuf, Makoto Mitsumori, Freda M McIntosh, Tadeusz Michalowski, Takafumi Nagamine, Nancy Nelson, Charles J Newbold, Eli Nsabimana, Akio Takenaka, Nadine A Thomas, Kazunari Ushida, Johannes HP Hackstein and Martijn A Huynen

BMC Genomics 2006, 7:22 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-7-22

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On the need for widespread horizontal gene transfers under genome size constraint

Hervé Isambert, Richard R Stein Biology Direct 2009, 4:28 (25 August 2009)

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Horizontal Gene Transfers in prokaryotes show differential preferences for metabolic and translational genes

Aditi Kanhere, Martin Vingron BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:9 (10 January 2009)

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Macronuclear genome structure of the ciliate Nyctotherus ovalis: Single-gene chromosomes and tiny introns

Guénola Ricard, Rob M de Graaf, Bas E Dutilh, I Duarte, Theo A van Alen, Angela HAM van Hoek, Brigitte Boxma, Georg WM van der Staay, Seung Moon-van der Staay, Wei-Jen Chang, Laura F Landweber, Johannes HP Hackstein, Martijn A Huynen BMC Genomics 2008, 9:587 (5 December 2008)

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Concerted gene recruitment in early plant evolution

Jinling Huang, J Peter Gogarten Genome Biology 2008, 9:R109 (8 July 2008)

Analyses of the red algal Cyanidioschyzon genome identified 37 genes that were acquired from non-organellar sources prior to the split of red algae and green plants.

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Horizontal gene transfer in chromalveolates

Tetyana Nosenko, Debashish Bhattacharya BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:173 (25 September 2007)

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The human phylome

Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Hernán Dopazo, Joaquín Dopazo, Toni Gabaldón Genome Biology 2007, 8:R109 (13 June 2007)

The human phylome, which includes evolutionary relationships of all human proteins and their homologs among thirty-nine fully sequenced eukaryotes, is reconstructed.

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A genomic survey of the fish parasite Spironucleus salmonicida indicates genomic plasticity among diplomonads and significant lateral gene transfer in eukaryote genome evolution

Jan O Andersson, Åsa M Sjögren, David S Horner, Colleen A Murphy, Patricia L Dyal, Staffan G Svärd, John M Logsdon, Mark A Ragan, Robert P Hirt, Andrew J Roger BMC Genomics 2007, 8:51 (14 February 2007)

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The glycolytic pathway of Trimastix pyriformis is an evolutionary mosaic

Alexandra Stechmann, Manuela Baumgartner, Jeffrey D Silberman, Andrew J Roger BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:101 (23 November 2006)