BMC Evolutionary Biology

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On the origin of microbial ORFans: quantifying the strength of the evidence for viral lateral transfer

Yanbin Yin and Daniel Fischer*

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:63 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-63

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A hidden reservoir of integrative elements is the major source of recently acquired foreign genes and ORFans in archaeal and bacterial genomes

Diego Cortez, Patrick Forterre, Simonetta Gribaldo Genome Biology 2009, 10:R65 (16 June 2009)

A large-scale survey of potential recently acquired integrative elements in 119 archaeal and bacterial genomes reveals that many recently acquired genes have originated from integrative elements

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Identification and investigation of ORFans in the viral world

Yanbin Yin, Daniel Fischer BMC Genomics 2008, 9:24 (19 January 2008)

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Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli

Morgan N Price, Paramvir S Dehal, Adam P Arkin Genome Biology 2008, 9:R4 (7 January 2008)

Most Escherichia coli transcription factors have paralogs, but these usually arose by horizontal gene transfer rather than by duplication within the E. coli lineage, as previously believed.