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GENETIC EXCHANGE IN EUKARYOTES THROUGH HORIZONTAL TRANSFER: CONNECTED BY THE MOBILOME
Transferência horizontal
Transmissão horizontal
Impacto nos genomas do hospedeiro
Elementos transponíveis
Horizontal transfer
Horizontal transmission
Impact on host genomes
Transposable elements
Affilliation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Aggeu Magalhães. Departamento de Entomologia. Recife, PE, Brasil.
Université de Lyon. Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive. Villeurbanne, France.
Federal University of Santa Maria. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
Université de Lyon. Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive. Villeurbanne, France.
Federal University of Santa Maria. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
Abstract
All living species contain genetic information that was once shared by their common ancestor. DNA is being inherited through generations by vertical transmission (VT) from parents to offspring and from ancestor to descendant species. This process was considered the sole pathway by which biological entities exchange inheritable information. However, Horizontal Transfer (HT), the exchange of genetic information by other means than parents to offspring, was discovered in prokaryotes along with strong evidence showing that it is a very important process by which prokaryotes acquire new genes.
Keywords in Portuguese
Métodos de detecçãoTransferência horizontal
Transmissão horizontal
Impacto nos genomas do hospedeiro
Elementos transponíveis
Keywords
Detection methodsHorizontal transfer
Horizontal transmission
Impact on host genomes
Transposable elements
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