Search Results - "McInerney, James O"

Population Genomics Reveal Recent Speciation and Rapid Evolutionary Adaptation in Polar Bears by Liu, Shiping, Lorenzen, Eline D., Fumagalli, Matteo, Li, Bo, Harris, Kelley, Xiong, Zijun, Zhou, Long, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Somel, Mehmet, Babbitt, Courtney, Wray, Greg, Li, Jianwen, He, Weiming, Wang, Zhuo, Fu, Wenjing, Xiang, Xueyan, Morgan, Claire C., Doherty, Aoife, O’Connell, Mary J., McInerney, James O., Born, Erik W., Dalén, Love, Dietz, Rune, Orlando, Ludovic, Sonne, Christian, Zhang, Guojie, Nielsen, Rasmus, Willerslev, Eske, Wang, Jun

“…Polar bears are uniquely adapted to life in the High Arctic and have undergone drastic physiological changes in response to Arctic climates and a hyperlipid…”
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Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes by Ku, Chuan, Nelson-Sathi, Shijulal, Roettger, Mayo, Sousa, Filipa L., Lockhart, Peter J., Bryant, David, Hazkani-Covo, Einat, McInerney, James O., Landan, Giddy, Martin, William F.

“…Chloroplasts arose from cyanobacteria, mitochondria arose from proteobacteria. Both organelles have conserved their prokaryotic biochemistry, but their genomes…”
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Metazoan opsin evolution reveals a simple route to animal vision by Feuda, Roberto, Hamilton, Sinead C, McInerney, James O, Pisani, Davide

“…All known visual pigments in Neuralia (Cnidaria, Ctenophora, and Bilateria) are composed of an opsin (a seven-transmembrane G protein-coupled receptor), and a…”
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The hybrid nature of the Eukaryota and a consilient view of life on Earth by McInerney, James O., O'Connell, Mary J., Pisani, Davide

“…McInerney and colleagues summarize the phylogenetic, cell biological, population biology, biochemical and paleontological evidence that cellular life consists…”
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Combined Analysis of Variation in Core, Accessory and Regulatory Genome Regions Provides a Super-Resolution View into the Evolution of Bacterial Populations by McNally, Alan, Oren, Yaara, Kelly, Darren, Pascoe, Ben, Dunn, Steven, Sreecharan, Tristan, Vehkala, Minna, Välimäki, Niko, Prentice, Michael B, Ashour, Amgad, Avram, Oren, Pupko, Tal, Dobrindt, Ulrich, Literak, Ivan, Guenther, Sebastian, Schaufler, Katharina, Wieler, Lothar H, Zhiyong, Zong, Sheppard, Samuel K, McInerney, James O, Corander, Jukka

“…The use of whole-genome phylogenetic analysis has revolutionized our understanding of the evolution and spread of many important bacterial pathogens due to the…”
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Acquisition of 1,000 eubacterial genes physiologically transformed a methanogen at the origin of Haloarchaea by Nelson-Sathi, Shijulal, Dagan, Tal, Landan, Giddy, Janssen, Arnold, Steel, Mike, McInerney, James O., Deppenmeier, Uwe, Martin, William F.

“…Archaebacterial halophiles (Haloarchaea) are oxygen-respiring heterotrophs that derive from methanogens—strictly anaerobic, hydrogen-dependent autotrophs…”
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Horizontal Gene Transfer as a Source of Conflict and Cooperation in Prokaryotes by Hall, Rebecca J., Whelan, Fiona J., McInerney, James O., Ou, Yaqing, Domingo-Sananes, Maria Rosa

“…Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is one of the most important processes in prokaryote evolution. The sharing of DNA can spread neutral or beneficial genes, as…”
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Function-related replacement of bacterial siderophore pathways by Bruns, Hilke, Crüsemann, Max, Letzel, Anne-Catrin, Alanjary, Mohammad, McInerney, James O, Jensen, Paul R, Schulz, Stefan, Moore, Bradley S, Ziemert, Nadine

“…Bacterial genomes are rife with orphan biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) associated with secondary metabolism of unrealized natural product molecules. Often up…”
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Gene similarity networks provide tools for understanding eukaryote origins and evolution by Alvarez-Ponce, David, Lopez, Philippe, Bapteste, Eric, McInerney, James O.

“…The complexity and depth of the relationships between the three domains of life challenge the reliability of phylogenetic methods, encouraging the use of…”
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Eukaryotic genes of archaebacterial origin are more important than the more numerous eubacterial genes, irrespective of function by Cotton, James A., McInerney, James O.

“…The traditional tree of life shows eukaryotes as a distinct lineage of living things, but many studies have suggested that the first eukaryotic cells were…”
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Evolutionary analyses of non-genealogical bonds produced by introgressive descent by Bapteste, Eric, Lopez, Philippe, Bouchard, Frédéric, Baquero, Fernando, McInerney, James O, Burian, Richard M

“…All evolutionary biologists are familiar with evolutionary units that evolve by vertical descent in a tree-like fashion in single lineages. However, many other…”
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Supertrees Disentangle the Chimerical Origin of Eukaryotic Genomes by Pisani, Davide, Cotton, James A., McInerney, James O.

“…Eukaryotes are traditionally considered to be one of the three natural divisions of the tree of life and the sister group of the Archaebacteria. However,…”
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"Every Gene Is Everywhere but the Environment Selects": Global Geolocalization of Gene Sharing in Environmental Samples through Network Analysis by Fondi, Marco, Karkman, Antti, Tamminen, Manu V, Bosi, Emanuele, Virta, Marko, Fani, Renato, Alm, Eric, McInerney, James O

“…The spatial distribution of microbes on our planet is famously formulated in the Baas Becking hypothesis as "everything is everywhere but the environment…”
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Formation of chimeric genes with essential functions at the origin of eukaryotes by Méheust, Raphaël, Bhattacharya, Debashish, Pathmanathan, Jananan S, McInerney, James O, Lopez, Philippe, Bapteste, Eric

“…Eukaryotes evolved from the symbiotic association of at least two prokaryotic partners, and a good deal is known about the timings, mechanisms, and dynamics of…”
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TOPD/FMTS: a new software to compare phylogenetic trees by Puigbò, Pere, Garcia-Vallvé, Santiago, McInerney, James O.

“…TOPD/FMTS has been developed to evaluate similarities and differences between phylogenetic trees. The software implements several new algorithms (including the…”
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The Public Goods Hypothesis for the evolution of life on Earth by McInerney, James O, Pisani, Davide, Bapteste, Eric, O'Connell, Mary J

“…It is becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile the observed extent of horizontal gene transfers with the central metaphor of a great tree uniting all…”
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Prokaryotic Pangenomes Act as Evolving Ecosystems by McInerney, James O

“…Abstract Understanding adaptation to the local environment is a central tenet and a major focus of evolutionary biology. But this is only part of the…”
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New approaches for unravelling reassortment pathways by Svinti, Victoria, Cotton, James A, McInerney, James O

“…Every year the human population encounters epidemic outbreaks of influenza, and history reveals recurring pandemics that have had devastating consequences. The…”
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Mechanisms That Shape Microbial Pangenomes by Domingo-Sananes, Maria Rosa, McInerney, James O.

“…Analyses of multiple whole-genome sequences from the same species have revealed that differences in gene content can be substantial, particularly in…”
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Why prokaryotes have pangenomes by McInerney, James O., McNally, Alan, O'Connell, Mary J.

“…The existence of large amounts of within-species genome content variability is puzzling. Population genetics tells us that fitness effects of new…”
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