Horizontal Gene Transfer

Complete Genome Sequence of the Methanogenic Archaeon, Methanococcus jannaschii

1996 • 2,043 citations

Phylogenetic Classification and the Universal Tree

1999 • 1,872 citations

Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and Bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima

1999 • 1,505 citations

Symbiosis in cell evolution

1981 • 1,386 citations

The complete genome of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus

1998 • 1,105 citations

Genome phylogeny based on gene content

1999 • 714 citations

Selfish Operons: Horizontal Transfer May Drive the Evolution of Gene Clusters

1996 • 686 citations

Interpreting the universal phylogenetic tree

2000 • 643 citations

Symbiosis in Cell Evolution

1983 • 340 citations

Origin of life-facing up to the physical setting

1991 • 328 citations

Comparison of archaeal and bacterial genomes: computer analysis of protein sequences predicts novel functions and suggests a chimeric origin for the archaea

1997 • 316 citations

Whole genome-based phylogenetic analysis of free-living microorganisms

1999 • 306 citations

Distinct Types of rRNA Operons Exist in the Genome of the Actinomycete Thermomonospora chromogena and Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of an Entire rRNA Operon

1999 • 271 citations

Gene transfer, speciation, and the evolution of bacterial genomes

1999 • 255 citations

The Genomic Tree as Revealed from Whole Proteome Comparisons

1999 • 244 citations

Horizontal transfer of ATPase genes — the tree of life becomes a net of life

1993 • 244 citations

On the Evolution of the Single-Subunit RNA Polymerases

1997 • 156 citations

The actinomycete Thermobispora bispora contains two distinct types of transcriptionally active 16S rRNA genes

1997 • 148 citations

The Estimation of the Number and the Length Distribution of Gene Conversion Tracts From Population DNA Sequence Data

1997 • 143 citations

Orthologs, paralogs and genome comparisons

1999 • 136 citations

The effects of heavy meteorite bombardment on the early evolution — The emergence of the three Domains of life

1995 • 106 citations

Promoter Structures and Differential Responses to Viral and Nonviral Inducers of Chicken Type I Interferon Genes

1998 • 93 citations

Recurrent paralogy in the evolution of archaeal chaperonins

1999 • 92 citations

Archaeal-type lysyl-tRNA synthetase in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi

1997 • 89 citations

Transcription factor IID in the Archaea: sequences in the Thermococcus celer genome would encode a product closely related to the TATA-binding protein of eukaryotes.

1994 • 86 citations

Fine-resolution mapping of spontaneous and double-strand break-induced gene conversion tracts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals reversible mitotic conversion polarity.

1994 • 82 citations

Evolution and isoforms of V-ATPase subunits

1992 • 81 citations

Book review

1989 • 79 citations

Transduction, restriction and recombination patterns in Escherichia coli.

1995 • 78 citations

The early evolution of cellular life

1995 • 75 citations

Are archaebacteria merely derived ‘prokaryotes’?

1981 • 68 citations

Horizontal Transfer of Archaeal Genes into the Deinococcaceae: Detection by Molecular and Computer-Based Approaches

2000 • 58 citations

Fine-Resolution Analysis of Products of Intrachromosomal Homeologous Recombination in Mammalian Cells

1997 • 38 citations

Witnessing the evolution of transcription in mitochondria: the mitochondrial genome of the primitive brown alga Pylaiella littoralis (L.) Kjellm. encodes a T7-like RNA polymerase

1998 • 34 citations

Horizontal Gene Transfer: Pitfalls and Promises

1999 • 26 citations

Phylogenetic scanning: a computer-assisted algorithm for mapping gene conversions and other recombinational events

1991 • 16 citations