Molecular evolution proceeds not only by divergence from a common ancestor, but also by combining parts from evolving objects of different origins, through processes that are called introgressive. Lateral gene transfers are probably the most well-known of these processes, but introgression has been shown to also happen at various levels of...
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October 23, 2017 (v1)PublicationUploaded on: December 4, 2022
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2018 (v1)Journal article
Microbes are the oldest and most widespread, phylogenetically and metabolically diverse life forms on Earth. However, they have been discovered only 334 years ago, and their diversity started to become seriously investigated even later. For these reasons, microbial studies that unveil novel microbial lineages and processes affecting or...
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March 13, 2018 (v1)Journal article
BackgroundEukaryotes evolved from the symbiotic association of at least two prokaryotic partners, and a good deal is known about the timings, mechanisms, and dynamics of these evolutionary steps. Recently, it was shown that a new class of nuclear genes, symbiogenetic genes (S-genes), was formed concomitant with endosymbiosis and the subsequent...
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July 6, 2019 (v1)Book section
In the post genomic era, large and complex molecular datasets from genome and metagenome sequencing projects expand the limits of what is possible for bioinformatic analyses. Network-based methods are increasingly used to complement phylogenetic analysis in studies in molecular evolution, including comparative genomics, classification, and...
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2022 (v1)Journal article
Animals and fungi have radically distinct morphologies, yet both evolved within the same eukaryotic supergroup: Opisthokonta 1,2 . Here we reconstructed the trajectory of genetic changes that accompanied the origin of Metazoa and Fungi since the divergence of Opisthokonta with a dataset that includes four novel genomes from crucial positions in...
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