BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Algorithms for computing parsimonious evolutionary scenarios for genome evolution, the last universal common ancestor and dominance of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of prokaryotes

Boris G Mirkin1, Trevor I Fenner1, Michael Y Galperin2 and Eugene V Koonin2*

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1 School of Information Systems and Computer Science, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK

2 National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2003, 3:2 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-3-2

Published: 6 January 2003

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