Horizontal Gene Transfer in Metazoa: Examples and Methods

Yuki Yoshida; Reuben W. Nowell; Kazuharu Arakawa; Mark Blaxter

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21862-1_7

Horizontal Gene Transfer in Metazoa: Examples and Methods

Yuki Yoshida, Reuben W. Nowell, Kazuharu Arakawa, Mark Blaxter

Graduate School of Media and Governance

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Abstract

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is now widely accepted as an indispensable mechanism in the evolution of microbes, but its contribution in metazoans still raises controversies. This is partly due to the methodologies used for the comprehensive prediction of HGT candidates from genomic information and also because the specific pathways that allow the incorporation of foreign DNA in the germline cells and subsequently to their chromosomes remain elusive. Here, we review the methods for HGT detection and examples of HGT events in two metazoan groups, bdelloid rotifers and tardigrades. Both groups are parthenogenetic and are capable of surviving desiccation (anhydrobiosis), and the roles of these features in promoting HGT, and of HGT loci to these phenomena, are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Horizontal Gene Transfer
Subtitle of host publication	Breaking Borders between Living Kingdoms
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	203-226
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030218621
ISBN (Print)	9783030218614
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21862-1_7
Publication status	Published - 2019 Jan 1

Keywords

Alien Index
Bdelloid rotifer
HGT Index
Horizontal gene transfer
Tardigrade

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Medicine(all)
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics(all)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
Immunology and Microbiology(all)

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