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Accounting for horizontal gene transfers explains conflicting hypotheses regarding the position of aquificales in the phylogeny of Bacteria

Bastien Boussau email, Laurent Guéguen email and Manolo Gouy email

Université de Lyon; Université Lyon 1; CNRS; INRIA; Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, Villeurbanne F-69622, France

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:272doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-272

Published: 3 October 2008

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Additional file 1:

The list of species used in the study, and their abbreviated names as found in the figures of the article.

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Additional file 2:

Unrooted phylogenetic tree of Bacteria obtained after the addition of two free-living epsilon-Proteobacteria, Sulfurovum NBC37-1 and thermophilic Nitratiruptor SB155-2.

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The list of 56 HOGENOM gene families used to estimate species trees, with the corresponding function description.

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