Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral transfer in prokaryote genome evolution Export

@article{citeulike:3315608, abstract = {10.1073/pnas.0800679105 Lateral gene transfer is an important mechanism of natural variation among prokaryotes, but the significance of its quantitative contribution to genome evolution is debated. Here, we report networks that capture both vertical and lateral components of evolutionary history among 539,723 genes distributed across 181 sequenced prokaryotic genomes. Partitioning of these networks by an eigenspectrum analysis identifies community structure in prokaryotic gene-sharing networks, the modules of which do not correspond to a strictly hierarchical prokaryotic classification. Our results indicate that, on average, at least 81 \^{A}± 15\% of the genes in each genome studied were involved in lateral gene transfer at some point in their history, even though they can be vertically inherited after acquisition, uncovering a substantial cumulative effect of lateral gene transfer on longer evolutionary time scales.}, address = {Institut f\"{u}r Botanik III, Heinrich-Heine Universit\"{a}t D\"{u}sseldorf, Universit\"{a}tsstrasse 1, 40225 D\"{u}sseldorf, Germany. tal.dagan@uni-duesseldorf.de}, author = {Dagan, Tal and Artzy-Randrup, Yael and Martin, William}, citeulike-article-id = {3315608}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800679105}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/105/29/10039.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/105/29/10039.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18632554}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18632554}, day = {22}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.0800679105}, issn = {1091-6490}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, keywords = {dupvshgt, genome-evolution, hgt, prokaryote}, month = {July}, number = {29}, pages = {10039--10044}, posted-at = {2009-10-29 15:24:48}, priority = {2}, title = {Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral transfer in prokaryote genome evolution}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800679105}, volume = {105}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3315608 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3315608 N2 - 10.1073/pnas.0800679105 Lateral gene transfer is an important mechanism of natural variation among prokaryotes, but the significance of its quantitative contribution to genome evolution is debated. Here, we report networks that capture both vertical and lateral components of evolutionary history among 539,723 genes distributed across 181 sequenced prokaryotic genomes. Partitioning of these networks by an eigenspectrum analysis identifies community structure in prokaryotic gene-sharing networks, the modules of which do not correspond to a strictly hierarchical prokaryotic classification. Our results indicate that, on average, at least 81 ± 15% of the genes in each genome studied were involved in lateral gene transfer at some point in their history, even though they can be vertically inherited after acquisition, uncovering a substantial cumulative effect of lateral gene transfer on longer evolutionary time scales. IS - 29 JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences SN - 1091-6490 AD - Institut für Botanik III, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. tal.dagan@uni-duesseldorf.de EP - 10044 TI - Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral transfer in prokaryote genome evolution VL - 105 SP - 10039 KW - dupvshgt KW - genome-evolution KW - hgt KW - prokaryote AU - Dagan, Tal AU - Artzy-Randrup, Yael AU - Martin, William PY - 2008/07/22/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800679105 ER -