Widespread of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes.

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between distantly related organisms is considered as a very rare phenomenon in eukaryotes like plants and animals. Here we report the identification of HGT regions (HGTs) in 10 model eukaryote organisms. By genome sequence comparison, we have found between10 to 243 non-redundant HGTs per eukaryote species. PCR validation of HGTs in Arabidopsis excluded the probability of contamination. Genes impacted by HGTs in Arabidopsis are enriched in transmembrane transport. Some HGTs have transformed their host genomes with various numbers of copies and have impacted hundreds, even thousands of genes. Further analysis has shown that the majority of eukaryotes with genomes available contain HGTs. Our findings reveal that HGT is ubiquitous in eukaryotes.

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Analysis pipeline
    

• demo.tar.gz: The pipeline to identify HGTs, with source code, datasets and results (human as an example) (7.2G)
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