Integron diversity in heavy-metal-contaminated mine tailings and inferences about integron evolution

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Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the flow of genetic information across species boundaries and integrons are HGT systems containing elements necessary for site-specific recombination and expression of foreign DNA. Integrons in an environmental microbial community were studied along with an investigation of integron evolution.

Author: Nemergut, D. R., Martin, A. P., Schmidt, S. K.
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2004
Legal issues & crime, Company legal issue, Investigations, Horizontal integration, Microbiological techniques (Diagnosis)

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Multiple-locus sequence typing and analysis of toxin genes in Bacillus cereus food-borne isolates

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Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is used to characterize any food-borne isolates of Bacillus cereus. The results have shown that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a vital element in shaping the population structure of the Bacillus cereus complex and has provided evidence of reticulate evolution within this complex.

Author: Cardazzo, Barbara, Negrisolo, Enrico, Carraro, Lisa, Alberghini, Leonardo, Patarnello, Tomaso, Giaccone, Valerio
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2008
Usage, Cladistic analysis, Bacillus cereus

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Evidence for horizontal transfer of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase genes

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PCR are used to rapidly identify and isolate 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase genes from bacteria. Results reveal that 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase genes did not evolve vertically but instead have undergone horizontal gene transfer.

Author: Hontzeas, N., Richardson, A.O., Belimov, A., Safronova, V., Abu-Omar, M.M., Glick, B.R.
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2005
Bacteria, Genetic research

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Subjects list: Research, Genetic transformation, Genetic aspects
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