The tree of one percent (2006)
Abstract Two significant evolutionary processes are fundamentally not tree-like in nature - lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes and endosymbiotic gene transfer (from organelles) among eukaryotes....
AluGene: a database of Alu elements incorporated within protein-coding genes
Dagan, Tal, Sorek, Rotem, Sharon, Eilon, Ast, Gil, Graur, Dan
Alu elements are short interspersed elements (SINEs) ∼300 nucleotides in length. More than 1 million Alus are found in the human genome. Despite their being genetically functionless, recent...
AluGene: a database of Alu elements incorporated within protein-coding genes
Dagan, Tal, Sorek, Rotem, Sharon, Eilon, Ast, Gil, Graur, Dan
Alu elements are short interspersed elements (SINEs) ∼300 nucleotides in length. More than 1 million Alus are found in the human genome. Despite their being genetically functionless, recent...
As lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes and endosymbiotic gene transfer (from organelles) among eukaryotes are fundamentally not tree-like in nature, biologists need to depart from the notion that...
Ancestral genome sizes specify the minimum rate of lateral gene transfer during prokaryote evolution
The amount of lateral gene transfer (LGT) that has occurred in microbial evolution is heavily debated. Efforts to quantify LGT through gene-tree comparisons have delivered estimates that between 2%...
The origin of mitochondria in light of a fluid prokaryotic chromosome model
Esser, Christian, Martin, William, Dagan, Tal
Biologists agree that the ancestor of mitochondria was an α-proteobacterium. But there is no consensus as to what constitutes an α-proteobacterial gene. Is it a gene found in all or several...