Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and Bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima

By K. Nelson, R. Clayton, S. Gill, M. Gwinn, R. Dodson, Daniel H. Haft, E. Hickey, J. Peterson, W. Nelson, K. Ketchum and 19 more. 1999

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Novel domains of the prokaryotic two-component signal transduction systems. (2001, background): “aeolicus and Thermotoga maritima, which appear to have undergone horizontal gene exchange with the archaea on a massive scale [43,44].”
Prokaryotic evolution in light of gene transfer. (2002, background): “…for HGT (table 1) and highlight its confounding effects in reconstructing the history of organismal evolution (Koonin et al. 1997; Doolittle 1999b; Nelson et al. 1999; Pennisi 1999; Koonin, Aravind, and Kondrashov 2000; Boucher, Nesbo, and Doolittle 2001; Nesbo, Boucher, and Doolittle 2001;…”
Lateral gene transfer and the nature of bacterial innovation (2000, background): “subtilis and Synechocystis , have much lower proportions of genes that are most similar to Archaeal homologue”
Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world (2008, background): “maritima (178), contained many more homologs of characteristic archaeal proteins than mesophilic bacteria as well as proteins with homologs both in archaea and bacteria but with much higher sequence similarity to the latter than to the former.”
Ab initio gene identification in metagenomic sequences (2010, background): “maritima genome paper (32) of massive horizontal influx of genes transferred from archaeal species (33).”
Soil biology for resilient, healthy soil (2015, background): “1 mechanisms, emphasize the genetic and functional plasticity of the microscopic world that exists in soil (Nelson 1999).”
Accurate phylogenetic classification of variable-length DNA fragments (2007, background): “For instance, our in silico evaluation at the domain level showed that fragments of the Thermotoga maritima genome, which is known to contain archaeal region”
The TIGRFAMs database of protein families (2003, background): “Orthologs by definition cannot have undergone horizontal gene transfer events, although such events are ubiquitous (3,4).”
CRISPR-Cas Systems: RNA-mediated Adaptive Immunity in Bacteria and Archaea (2013, background): “Repeat arrays were also detected in the bacterium Thermotoga maritima (Nelson et al. 1999), and partial sequences were found in Streptococcus pyogenes (Hoe et al. 1999) and in cyanobacterial strains (Masepohl et al. 1996).”