• Exploring the Intrinsic Limits of Nitrogenase Transfer from Bacteria to Eukaryotes 

      Soto, Gabriela Cynthia; Fox, Ana Romina; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel (Springer, 2013-08)
      Biological nitrogen fixation is widespread among the Eubacteria and Archae domains but completely absent in eukaryotes. The lack of lateral transfer of nitrogen-fixation genes from prokaryotes to eukaryotes has been partially ...
    • Selective pressure against horizontally acquired prokaryotic genes as a driving force of plastid evolution 

      Llorente, Briardo; de Souza, Flavio S. J.; Soto, Gabriela Cynthia; Meyer, Cristian; Alonso, Guillermo D.; Flawia, Mirtha M.; Bravo Almonacid, Fernando Felix; Ayub, Nicolás Daniel; Rodríguez-Concepción, Manuel (Springer Nature, 2016-01)
      The plastid organelle comprises a high proportion of nucleus-encoded proteins that were acquired from different prokaryotic donors via independent horizontal gene transfers following its primary endosymbiotic origin. What ...