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Role of gene duplication and horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in rhodococcal genome evolution.
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posted on 2010-09-30, 02:10 authored by Michal Letek, Patricia González, Iain MacArthur, Héctor Rodríguez, Tom C. Freeman, Ana Valero-Rello, Mónica Blanco, Tom Buckley, Inna Cherevach, Ruth Fahey, Alexia Hapeshi, Jolyon Holdstock, Desmond Leadon, Jesús Navas, Alain Ocampo, Michael A. Quail, Mandy Sanders, Mariela M. Scortti, John F. Prescott, Ursula Fogarty, Wim G. Meijer, Julian Parkhill, Stephen D. Bentley, José A. Vázquez-BolandScatter plots of (A) duplicated (paralogous) genes and (B) HGT genes versus the total number of genes in rhodococcal and actinobacterial genomes (curve fits of rhodococcal data in red, general trendline in black). HGT genes were excluded from the paralogy analyses.
