BMC Evolutionary Biology

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

Yanbin Yin1 and Daniel Fischer1,2*

Author Affiliations

1 Computer Science and Engineering Dept. 201 Bell Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-2000, US

2 Bioinformatics/Dept. of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 84015, Israel

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

Published: 16 August 2006

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the numbers of ORFans and nonORFans, the numbers of ORFs having homologs in viruses in 277 prokaryotic genomes, using different BLASTP cutoff to define ORFans.

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