Endosymbiotic gene transfer from prokaryotic pangenomes: Inherited chimerism in eukaryotes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 10139-10146

  Ku, Chuan ^a   Nelson Sathi, Shijulal ^a   Roettger, Mayo ^a   Garg, Sriram ^a   Hazkani Covo, Einat ^b   Martin, William F ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Evolution; Lateral gene transfer; Mitochondria; Plastids

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHIMERA; CHLOROPLAST; CONJUGATION; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA TRANSFER; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOSS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC LOAD; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; MICROBIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PLASTID GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROKARYOTIC PANGENOME; SERIAL ENDOSYMBIOTIC THEORY; SYMBIONT; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ARCHAEA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHLOROPLASTS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84937507813     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421385112     Document Type: Article

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