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On the need for widespread horizontal gene transfers under genome size constraint

BACKGROUND: While eukaryotes primarily evolve by duplication-divergence expansion (and reduction) of their own gene repertoire with only rare horizontal gene transfers, prokaryotes appear to evolve under both gene duplications and widespread horizontal gene transfers over long evolutionary time scal...

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Autores principales: Isambert, Hervé, Stein, Richard R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19703318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-4-28