Does Gene Translocation Accelerate the Evolution of Laterally Transferred Genes? Export

@article{citeulike:5495568, abstract = {Lateral gene transfer (LGT) and gene rearrangement are essential for shaping bacterial genomes during evolution. Separate attention has been focused on understanding the process of lateral gene transfer and the process of gene translocation. However, little is known about how gene translocation affects laterally transferred genes. Here we have examined gene translocations and lateral gene transfers in closely related genome pairs. The results reveal that translocated genes undergo elevated rates of evolution and gene translocation tends to take place preferentially in recently acquired genes. Translocated genes have a high probability to be truncated, suggesting that translocation followed by truncation/deletion might play an important role in the fast turnover of laterally transferred genes. Furthermore, more recently acquired genes have a higher proportion of genes on the leading strand, suggesting a strong strand bias of lateral gene transfer. 10.1534/genetics.109.104216}, author = {Hao, Weilong and Golding, G. Brian}, citeulike-article-id = {5495568}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.109.104216}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.genetics.org/content/182/4/1365.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.genetics.org/content/182/4/1365.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/abstract/182/4/1365}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19474197}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19474197}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1534/genetics.109.104216}, journal = {Genetics}, keywords = {acceleration, evolution, gene-transfer}, month = {August}, number = {4}, pages = {1365--1375}, posted-at = {2009-08-21 01:13:05}, priority = {2}, title = {Does Gene Translocation Accelerate the Evolution of Laterally Transferred Genes?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.109.104216}, volume = {182}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5495568 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5495568 N2 - Lateral gene transfer (LGT) and gene rearrangement are essential for shaping bacterial genomes during evolution. Separate attention has been focused on understanding the process of lateral gene transfer and the process of gene translocation. However, little is known about how gene translocation affects laterally transferred genes. Here we have examined gene translocations and lateral gene transfers in closely related genome pairs. The results reveal that translocated genes undergo elevated rates of evolution and gene translocation tends to take place preferentially in recently acquired genes. Translocated genes have a high probability to be truncated, suggesting that translocation followed by truncation/deletion might play an important role in the fast turnover of laterally transferred genes. Furthermore, more recently acquired genes have a higher proportion of genes on the leading strand, suggesting a strong strand bias of lateral gene transfer. 10.1534/genetics.109.104216 IS - 4 JF - Genetics EP - 1375 TI - Does Gene Translocation Accelerate the Evolution of Laterally Transferred Genes? VL - 182 SP - 1365 KW - acceleration KW - evolution KW - gene-transfer AU - Hao, Weilong AU - Golding, Brian PY - 2009/08/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.109.104216 ER -