Alienness: Rapid Detection of Candidate Horizontal Gene Transfers across the Tree of Life

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the transmission of genes between organisms by other means than parental to offspring inheritance. While it is prevalent in prokaryotes, HGT is less frequent in eukaryotes and particularly in Metazoa. Here, we propose Alienness, a taxonomy-aware web application avai...

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Autores principales: Rancurel, Corinne, Legrand, Ludovic, Danchin, Etienne G. J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Technical Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28961181
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes8100248

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28961181
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes8100248

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