Horizontal or Lateral Gene Transfer (HGT or LGT) is the transmission of portions of genomic
DNA between organisms through a process decoupled from vertical inheritance. In the …

Abstract Background The colonial cyanobacterium Microcystis proliferates in a wide range of
freshwater ecosystems and is exposed to changing environmental factors during its life …

Background Archaeal and bacterial genomes contain a number of genes of foreign origin
that arose from recent horizontal gene transfer, but the role of integrative elements (IEs) …

Codon adaptation index is a widely used index for characterizing gene expression in
general and translation efficiency in particular. Current computational implementations have …

Every individual gene or genome follows the phenomenon of codon bias, where the usage
among synonymous codons is not equal. The present study was conducted to understand …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has appeared to be of importance for prokaryotic species
evolution. As a consequence numerous parametric methods, using only the information …

In protein-coding genes, the genetic code defines the translational mapping from nucleotide
triplets (or codons) to amino acids. Synonymous codons translate to the same amino acid …

Salmonella spp. are accountable for a large fraction of the global infectious disease burden,
with most of their infections being food-or water-borne. The phenotypic features and …

Codon-based models of evolution are a relatively new addition to the toolkit of
computational biologists, and in recent years remarkable progress has been made in this …

The metaphor of the unique and strictly bifurcating tree of life, suggested by Charles Darwin,
needs to be replaced (or at least amended) to reflect and include processes that lead to the …