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Evolutionary "Crowdsourcing": Alignment of Fitness Landscapes Allows for Cross-species Adaptation of a Horizontally Transferred Gene.
Molecular biology and evolution - 3 Nov 2023
Kosterlitz Olivia, Grassi Nathan, Werner Bailey, McGee Ryan Seamus, Top Eva M, Kerr Benjamin
Abstract excerpt
Genes that undergo horizontal gene transfer (HGT) evolve in different genomic backgrounds. Despite the ubiquity of cross-species HGT, the effects of switching hosts on gene evolution remains understudied. Here, we present a framework to examine the evolutionary consequences of host-switching and apply this framework to an antibiotic resistance gene commonly found on conjugative plasmids. Specifically, we...
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