Horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to rumen ciliates indicates adaptation to their anaerobic, carbohydrates-rich environment

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ricard, Guénola ^a   McEwan, Neil R ^b   Dutilh, Bas E ^a   Jouany, Jean Pierre ^c   Macheboeuf, Didier ^c   Mitsumori, Makoto ^d   McIntosh, Freda M ^e   Michalowski, Tadeusz ^f   Nagamine, Takafumi ^g   Nelson, Nancy ^e   Newbold, Charles J ^g   Nsabimana, Eli ^c   Takenaka, Akio ^d   Thomas, Nadine A ^e   Ushida, Kazunari ^h   Hackstein, Johannes H P ⁱ   Huynen, Martijn A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f KIELANOWSKI INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND NUTRITION   (Poland)

^g STAFF Institute   (Japan)

^h KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CATABOLISM; CILIATE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RUMEN BACTERIA; RUMINANT STOMACH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; DASYTRICHA RUMINANTIUM; ENTODINIOMORPHIDA; ENTODINIUM CAUDATUM; ENTODINIUM SIMPLEX; EPIDINIUM ECAUDATUM; EUDIPLODINIUM; EUKARYOTA; ISOTRICHA INTESTINALIS; ISOTRICHA PROSTOMA; METADINIUM; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; POLYPLASTRON MULTIVESICULATUM; PROKARYOTA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; VESTIBULIFERIDA;

EID: 33645295532     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-22     Document Type: Article

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