Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "horizontal gene transfer"

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    • Gene Transfer from a Parasitic Flowering Plant to a Fern 

      Davis, Charles Cavender; Anderson, William R.; Wurdack, Kenneth J. (Royal Society of London, 2011)
      The rattlesnake fern (Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.) is obligately mycotrophic and widely distributed across the northern hemisphere. Three mitochondrial gene regions place this species with other ferns in Ophioglossaceae, ...

    • Microbial Communities of Lycaenid Butterflies Do Not Correlate with Larval Diet 

      Whitaker, Melissa R. L.; Salzman, Shayla; Sanders, Jon; Kaltenpoth, Martin; Pierce, Naomi E. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)
      Herbivores possess many counteradaptations to plant defenses, and a growing body of research describes the role of symbiotic gut bacteria in mediating herbivorous diets among insects. However, persistent bacterial symbioses ...

    • Phylogenomics of the Flowering Plant Clade Malpighiales 

      Xi, Zhenxiang (2013-03-18)
      The angiosperm order Malpighiales includes \(\sim 16,000\) species and constitutes up to 40% of the understory tree diversity in tropical rain forests. Despite remarkable progress in angiosperm phylogenetics during the ...