BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Assessing the evolutionary rate of positional orthologous genes in prokaryotes using synteny data

Frédéric Lemoine1,2, Olivier Lespinet1 and Bernard Labedan1*

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1 Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, CNRS UMR 8621, Bâtiment 400, Université Paris Sud XI, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France

2 Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, CNRS UMR 8623, Bâtiment 490, Université Paris Sud XI, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:237 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-237

Published: 29 November 2007

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Table 1. List of the 107 organisms (sorted by their taxonomy) used to compare gene order and to identify all orthologs. The complete taxonomy details and its abbreviated name are given for each studied organism.

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Treeortho, an algorithm to identify orthologs in evolutionary trees. The whole annotated Perl code for distinguishing orthologs and paralogs.

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A tree of CheC present in euryarchaeota and rooted with bacterial sequences. We used the full set of CheC sequences that are presently available in euryarchaeota.

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Figure 2. Structure of SynteBase. The five tables of SynteBase and their respective links are detailed.

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Table 2. The longest synteny block in SynteBase. The whole set of adjacent POGs present in Bacillus halodurans and Bacillus subtilis forming this longest synteny block found in comparing the 107 organisms under study in this work.

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