1. What can sequences tell us? BIOL E-127– 10/15/07

2. Reconstructed ancestral sequences to infer paleoenvironment (Gaucher et al., 2003)

3. Signs of selection (Sawyer & Malik, 2006)

4. Genetic exchange in bacteria/archaea

5. Detecting HGT: incongruent phylogeny/synteny HGT onlyLoss only (Koonin, 2003) Ex: glycerol-3-P DH

6. Detecting HGT: formaldehyde metabolism in methylotrophs (Kalyuzhnaya et al., 2005)

7. Detecting HGT: formaldehyde metabolism in methylotrophs (Kalyuzhnaya et al., 2005)

8. Detecting HGT: formaldehyde metabolism in methylotrophs Scenarios for pathway evolution (Chistoserdova et al., 2004)

9. Detecting HGT: plants!?! Rafflesia (Malpighiales) (Davis & Wurdack, 2004)

10. Detecting HGT: bacteria to insects!?! (Hottop et al., 2007)

11. HGT genes often clustered (Price et al., 2005)

12. Detecting HGT from genomes: atypical nt composition (Lawrence & Ochman, 1997)

13. Detecting HGT from genomes: atypical nt composition (Hacker & Carniel, 2001)

14. Detecting HGT from genomes: atypical nt composition

15. (Lawrence & Ochman, 1998)

16. Detecting HGT from genomes: atypical nt composition (Lawrence & Ochman, 1998)

17. Detecting HGT from genomes: atypical nt composition

18. Detecting HGT: differential gene content (Welch et al., 2002) (Pál et al., 2005)

19. Measurements of natural horizontal gene transfer (HGT) (Sørensen et al., 2005)

20. Measurements of natural horizontal gene transfer (HGT) (Sørensen et al., 2005)

21. Limitations to HGT

22. Decrease in recombination w/ sequence divergence (Fraser et al., 2007) Bacillus subtilis Bacillus mojavensis Streptococcus pneumoniae E. coli