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Using the nucleotide substitution rate matrix to detect horizontal gene transfer

BACKGROUND: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has allowed bacteria to evolve many new capabilities. Because transferred genes perform many medically important functions, such as conferring antibiotic resistance, improved detection of horizontally transferred genes from sequence data would be an importa...

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Autores principales: Hamady, Micah, Betterton, M D, Knight, Rob
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1657035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17067382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-7-476