Detection of Horizontal Transfer of Housekeeping and Hydrocarbons Catabolism Genes in Bacterial Genus with Potential to Application in Bioremediation Process
In silico analysis can be useful to infer about the
horizontal gene transfer (HGT) as well as to deduce about the evolutionary
relations of catabolic genes. In this study, we performed the analysis of two
housekeeping genes (fabD and rpoD) and two catabolic genes (alkB and catA) from 12 bacterial genus
usually founded in marine environments. Comparing the trees obtained from
Bayesian Inference hypotheses of these genes with 16S rDNA sequences, we noted
the topologies are different among housekeeping or catabolic genes trees
comparing to 16S gene tree. The HGT may be used with the purpose to spread
genes within bacterial community according to environmental conditions in
marine ecosystems. In this way, using our analysis, we concluded that
hydrocarbons catabolism genes as well as housekeeping genes can be
subject to horizontal gene transfers among marine bacterial communities.
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Rodrigues, E. M. , Freitas, F. D. S. and Siqueira, T. D. P. (2018). Detection of Horizontal Transfer of Housekeeping and Hydrocarbons Catabolism Genes in Bacterial Genus with Potential to Application in Bioremediation Process. Open Access Library Journal, 5, e4454. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1104454.
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