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ELIFE
卷 10, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.62719
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- Dutch Research Council (NWO) [864.14.004]
- H2020 European Research Council [865694]
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale [SPE201803005264]
- European Research Council (ERC) [865694] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a key force in microbial evolution, with long-distance HGT being frequent. The function of sequences strongly impacts their transfer rate, varying significantly between different functional categories. This study provides a comprehensive view of HGT and its role in driving bacterial evolution.
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is an essential force in microbial evolution. Despite detailed studies on a variety of systems, a global picture of HGT in the microbial world is still missing. Here, we exploit that HGT creates long identical DNA sequences in the genomes of distant species, which can be found efficiently using alignment-free methods. Our pairwise analysis of 93,481 bacterial genomes identified 138,273 HGT events. We developed a model to explain their statistical properties as well as estimate the transfer rate between pairs of taxa. This reveals that long-distance HGT is frequent: our results indicate that HGT between species from different phyla has occurred in at least 8% of the species. Finally, our results confirm that the function of sequences strongly impacts their transfer rate, which varies by more than three orders of magnitude between different functional categories. Overall, we provide a comprehensive view of HGT, illuminating a fundamental process driving bacterial evolution.
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