Elizabeth Skippington
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Literature
LGT
Davids W, Zhang Z: The impact of horizontal gene tranfer in shaping operons and protein interaction networks- direct evidence of preferential attachment. BMC Evoutionary Biology 2008, 8:23 [2]
Wellner A and Lurie MN: Complexity, connectivity, and duplicability as barriers to lateral gene transfer. Genome Biology 2007, 8:R156 [3]
LGT and regulatory networks
Lercher MJ, and Pál C: Integration of Horizontally Transferred Genes into Regulatory Interaction Networks Takes Many Million Years. Molecular Biology and Evolution 2008, 25(3):559-567 [4]
Price MN, Dehal PS, Arkin AP: Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli. Genome Biol 2008, 9(1):R4 [5]
LGT and metabolic networks
Eisenberg E, Levanon EY: Preferential attachment in the protein network evolution. Phys Rev Lett 2003, 91(13):138701 [6]
Transfer of operons
Homma K, Fukuchi S, Nakamura Y, Gojobori T, Nishikawa K: Gene Cluster Analysis Method Identifies Horizontally Transferred Genes with High Reliability and Indicates that They Provide the Main Mechanism of Operon Gain in 8 Species of {gamma}-Proteobacteria. Molecular Biology and Evolution 2007 24(3):805-813 [7]
Lawrence JG: Selfish operons and speciation by gene transfer. Trends in Microbiology 1997 5(9):355-359 [8]
LGT and operon formation
Lawrence JG & Roth JR: Selfish operons: Horizontal transfer may drive the evolution of gene clusters. Genetics. 1996 143(4): 1843–1860. [9]
Omelchenko MV, Makarova KS, Wolf YI, Rogozin IB, Koonin EV: Evolution of mosaic operons by horizontal gene transfer and gene displacement in situ. Genome Biol. 2003; 4(9): R55 [10]