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Overview

J. Peter Gogarten is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science.

Their work dives deeply into subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Plant Science, and Sociology and Political Science.

Research topics covered by J. Peter Gogarten include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Recent publications by Gogarten and collaborators illustrate the range of their scientific investigations. These include:

  • Bacterial cooperation through horizontal gene transfer, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Improving Phylogenies Based on Average Nucleotide Identity, Incorporating Saturation Correction and Nonparametric Bootstrap Support, 2021, Systematic Biology
  • The Evolutionary Origins of Extreme Halophilic Archaeal Lineages, 2021, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • A structural dendrogram of the actinobacteriophage major capsid proteins provides important structural insights into the evolution of capsid stability, 2023, Structure
  • Systematic Detection of Large-Scale Multigene Horizontal Transfer in Prokaryotes, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution

J. Peter Gogarten frequently collaborates with a consistent group of researchers, including:

  • Sophia Gosselin
  • Yutian Feng
  • R. Thane Papke
  • Danielle Arsenault
  • Artemis S. Louyakis

Their research contributions are regularly published in scientific venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Scientific Reports
  • Genes
  • Preprints.org

Best Publications

  • Prokaryotic Evolution in Light of Gene Transfer

    J. Peter Gogarten;W. Ford Doolittle;Jeffrey G. Lawrence

  • Horizontal gene transfer, genome innovation and evolution

    J. Peter Gogarten;Jeffrey P. Townsend

  • Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses

    Olga Zhaxybayeva;J Peter Gogarten

  • Genome characteristics of facultatively symbiotic Frankia sp. strains reflect host range and host plant biogeography.

    Philippe Normand;Pascal Lapierre;Louis S. Tisa;Johann Peter Gogarten

  • Estimating the size of the bacterial pan-genome

    Pascal Lapierre;J. Peter Gogarten

  • Phylogenetic analyses of cyanobacterial genomes: Quantification of horizontal gene transfer events

    Olga Zhaxybayeva;J. Peter Gogarten;Robert L. Charlebois;W. Ford Doolittle

  • Inteins: Structure, Function, and Evolution

    J. Peter Gogarten;Alireza G. Senejani;Olga Zhaxybayeva;Lorraine Olendzenski

  • Whole-Genome Analysis of Photosynthetic Prokaryotes

    Jason Raymond;Olga Zhaxybayeva;J. Peter Gogarten;Sveta Y. Gerdes

  • Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

    Eric Bapteste;Maureen A O'Malley;Robert G Beiko;Marc Ereshefsky

  • Were arachnids the first to use combinatorial peptide libraries

    Brianna L. Sollod;David Wilson;Olga Zhaxybayeva;J. Peter Gogarten

  • On the chimeric nature, thermophilic origin, and phylogenetic placement of the Thermotogales.

    Olga Zhaxybayeva;Kristen S. Swithers;Pascal Lapierre;Gregory P. Fournier

  • Bioinformatic Genome Comparisons for Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Assignments Using Aeromonas as a Test Case

    Sophie M. Colston;Matthew S. Fullmer;Lidia Beka;Brigitte Lamy

  • Biased gene transfer in microbial evolution.

    Cheryl P. Andam;J. Peter Gogarten

  • Inteins, introns, and homing endonucleases: recent revelations about the life cycle of parasitic genetic elements.

    J Peter Gogarten;Elena Hilario

  • Evolution of Acetoclastic Methanogenesis in Methanosarcina via Horizontal Gene Transfer from Cellulolytic Clostridia

    Gregory P. Fournier;J. Peter Gogarten

  • Using comparative genome analysis to identify problems in annotated microbial genomes.

    Maria S. Poptsova;J. Peter Gogarten

  • Horizontal gene transfer from extinct and extant lineages: biological innovation and the coral of life

    Gregory P. Fournier;Jinling Huang;J. Peter Gogarten

  • Intertwined Evolutionary Histories of Marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus marinus

    Olga Zhaxybayeva;W. Ford Doolittle;R. Thane Papke;J. Peter Gogarten

  • An improved probability mapping approach to assess genome mosaicism

    Olga Zhaxybayeva;J Peter Gogarten

  • Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

    William Martin;Tal Dagan;John Dupre;François-Joseph Lapointe

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Ford Doolittle
W. Ford Doolittle Dalhousie University
Ron Shamir
Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University
Robert E. Blankenship
Robert E. Blankenship Washington University in St. Louis
Ying Xu
Ying Xu University of Georgia
Mark A. Ragan
Mark A. Ragan University of Queensland
William Martin
William Martin Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Tal Dagan
Tal Dagan Kiel University
Derek M. Bickhart
Derek M. Bickhart Agricultural Research Service
Antonio Ventosa
Antonio Ventosa University of Seville
Uri Gophna
Uri Gophna Tel Aviv University

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