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PLANTS AND HGT. "The increasing structural complexity of land plants has been accompanied by diversified metabolic pathways and their chemical output. Like other complex multicellular eukaryotes, plants are able to form distinctive structures and coordinate development throughout their lifecycle. Our data clearly show that HGT contributed greatly to the metabolism, development and regulation of land plants." https://lnkd.in/eXQNMSa View in LinkedIn

LARGE CATALOGUE. "A comprehensive list of anti-apoptotic and cell survival genes is difficult to compile. An analysis of the results of searches of the existing literature...revealed a multitude of papers that describe over 150 different unique genes. In addition, there are 785 anti-apoptotic gene entries in the Gene Ontology database (https://lnkd.in/eZ6RHST). The later list is an over estimation." https://lnkd.in/ekVSuhr View in LinkedIn

LAND PLANTS. "In complex multicellular eukaryotes such as animals and plants, horizontal gene transfer is commonly considered rare with very limited evolutionary significance. Here we show that horizontal gene transfer is a dynamic process occurring frequently in the early evolution of land plants." https://lnkd.in/eXQNMSa View in LinkedIn

"AUTOPHAGY, the process by which cells recycle cellular constituents, is a critical adaptation to starvation and plays an important role in normal cell function and in PCD." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167488910002764 View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL GENE POOL."Owing to lateral gene transfer, prokaryotes might also be seen as a ‘global superorganism’. On account of a viral linkage to the tree of life, it is maybe more appropriate to regard all microorganisms including viruses as a ‘superorganism’ or part of a global DNA pool, which can in principle be accessed by all species." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00539.x/full View in LinkedIn

PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH. "Necrosis or type III PCD is the cell death that is observed in response to severe stresses such that occurs after physical injury or prolonged ischemia. In fact excessive amount of most apoptotic inducing stimuli will lead to necrosis." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167488910002764 View in LinkedIn

RANDOM VARIATION. "In the theory of genetic mosaicism, dsDNA phages have access to the global phage DNA pool by lateral gene transfer. This access is not uniform, e.g. because of host range barriers, thus representing ‘…a sort of random walk through phylogenetic space’." https://lnkd.in/ehNRjAC View in LinkedIn

NECROSIS. "The alternative to apoptotic cell death is necrosis, which is considered to be a toxic process where the cell is a passive victim and follows an energy-independent mode of death. Although the mechanisms and morphologies of apoptosis and necrosis differ, there is overlap between these two processes. Evidence indicates that necrosis and apoptosis represent morphologic expressions of a shared biochemical network described as the “apoptosis-necrosis continuum”. https://lnkd.in/eFmC7Ys View in LinkedIn

VIRAL IMPACT. "Although we only know a little about the detailed mechanisms, it seems likely that viruses shape the standing stock and fluxes of genetically encoded information. This should influence the ecology as well as the evolution of species." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00539.x/full View in LinkedIn

DELUGE OF PUBLICATIONS. "The growing realization of the importance of autophagy in the physiological responses to stresses as well as its importance in pathophysiological processes such as cancer, neurological and cardiovascular diseases is quite obvious from the shear number of reviews published in the first half of 2010." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167488910002764 View in LinkedIn