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Biased gene transfer and its implications for the concept of lineage

BACKGROUND: In the presence of horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the concepts of lineage and genealogy in the microbial world become more ambiguous because chimeric genomes trace their ancestry from a myriad of sources, both living and extinct. RESULTS: We present the evolutionary histories of three a...

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Autores principales: Andam, Cheryl P, Gogarten, J Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3191353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21943000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-6-47