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The role of laterally transferred genes in adaptive evolution

Pradeep R Marri, Weilong Hao and G Brian Golding*

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7(Suppl 1):S8 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-S1-S8

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Concerted gene recruitment in early plant evolution

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Analyses of the red algal Cyanidioschyzon genome identified 37 genes that were acquired from non-organellar sources prior to the split of red algae and green plants.

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Uncovering rate variation of lateral gene transfer during bacterial genome evolution

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The impact of horizontal gene transfer in shaping operons and protein interaction networks – direct evidence of preferential attachment

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The global landscape of sequence diversity

José Peregrín-Álvarez, John Parkinson Genome Biology 2007, 8:R238 (8 November 2007)

Comparison of genomic and EST sequences reveals a greater genetic diversity within eukaryotes than prokaryotes and enables identification of taxon-specific sequences.