Functions predict horizontal gene transfer and the emergence of antibiotic resistance
Hao Zhou, Juan Felipe Beltrán, Ilana Brito
Abstract
Transfer machinery, niche-specific, and metabolic genes are predictive of gene transfer events across diverse bacterial species.
Topics & Concepts
Horizontal gene transferBiologyAcinetobacter baumanniiAntibiotic resistanceGenomeMicrobiomePhylogenetic treeGeneComputational biologyNicheMetagenomicsAcinetobacterGene transferGeneticsEvolutionary biologyBacteriaEcologyPseudomonas aeruginosaAntibiotic Resistance in BacteriaGenomics and Phylogenetic StudiesEvolution and Genetic Dynamics