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The power of phylogenetic approaches to detect horizontally transferred genes

Maria S Poptsova email and J Peter Gogarten email

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:45doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-45

Published: 21 March 2007

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Power of HGT detection for in-silico gene exchanges and gene donations using the AU-test at different significance levels. Complementary tables for Figures 4 and 5.

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Power of HGT detection using the symmetric difference of Robinson and Foulds distance. Complementary tables for Figure 6.

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Power of HGT detection using bipartition spectra on genome data with in silico transfer. Complementary tables for Figure 8.

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