Horizontal gene transfer is more frequent with increased heterotrophy and contributes to parasite adaptation

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

Volumn 113, Issue 45, 2016, Pages E7010-E7019

  Yang, Zhenzhen ^a,b   Zhang, Yeting ^a,b,f   Wafula, Eric K ^a,b   Honaas, Loren A ^a,b,g   Ralph, Paula E ^b   Jones, Sam ^a,b   Clarke, Christopher R ^c   Liu, Siming ^d   Su, Chun ^e   Zhang, Huiting ^a,b   Altman, Naomi S ^a,b   Schuster, Stephan C ^a,b   Timko, Michael P ^b   Yoder, John I ^d   Westwood, James H ^c   Depamphilis, Claude W ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^f Life Sciences Building Rutgers University   (United States)

^g AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Genomic transfer; HGT; Parasitism; Phylogenomics; Validation pipeline

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HAUSTORIUM; HETEROTROPHY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LINDENBERGIA; NONHUMAN; OROBANCHACEAE; PARASITIC PLANT; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFYING SELECTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84994509816     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1608765113     Document Type: Article

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