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| Title |
Widespread Horizontal Gene Transfer from Circular Single-stranded DNA Viruses to Eukaryotic Genomes
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, September 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-11-276 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Huiquan Liu, Yanping Fu, Bo Li, Xiao Yu, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Said A Ghabrial, Guoqing Li, Xianhong Yi, Daohong Jiang |
| Abstract |
In addition to vertical transmission, organisms can also acquire genes from other distantly related species or from their extra-chromosomal elements (plasmids and viruses) via horizontal gene transfer (HGT). It has been suggested that phages represent substantial forces in prokaryotic evolution. In eukaryotes, retroviruses, which can integrate into host genome as an obligate step in their replication strategy, comprise approximately 8% of the human genome. Unlike retroviruses, few members of other virus families are known to transfer genes to host genomes. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Spain | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 194 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 4 | 2% |
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Costa Rica | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 4 | 2% |
| Unknown | 174 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 54 | 28% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 40 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 20 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 11 | 6% |
| Other | 33 | 17% |
| Unknown | 20 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 102 | 53% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 40 | 21% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 3% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 2% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 12 | 6% |
| Unknown | 29 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 November 2022.
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#4,659,519
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Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1,185
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#24,946
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#15
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Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,714 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its peers.
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