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SUBMITTER: Naranjo-Ortiz MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5169069 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Naranjo-Ortíz Miguel A MA Brock Matthias M Brunke Sascha S Hube Bernhard B Marcet-Houben Marina M Gabaldón Toni T
Frontiers in microbiology 20161220
Analysis of the growing number of available fully-sequenced genomes has shown that Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) in eukaryotes is more common than previously thought. It has been proposed that genes with certain functions may be more prone to HGT than others, but we still have a very poor understanding of the selective forces driving eukaryotic HGT. Recent work uncovered that d-amino acid racemases have been commonly transferred from bacteria to fungi, but their role in the receiving organisms ...[more]