Research article
Insights into the evolution of sialic acid catabolism among bacteria
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* Corresponding author: E Fidelma Boyd fboyd@udel.edu
1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
2 Department of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:118 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-118
Published: 26 May 2009Additional files
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NanA NJ tree. The figure shows a phylogenetic tree of NanA using Neighbor Joining as a tree building method.
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NanK NJ tree. The figure shows a phylogenetic tree of NanK using Neighbor Joining as a tree building method.
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NanE NJ tree. The figure shows a phylogenetic tree of NanE using Neighbor Joining as a tree building method.
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NanA ML tree. The figure shows a phylogenetic tree of NanA using Maximum Likelihood as a tree building method.
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NanK ML tree. The figure shows a phylogenetic tree of NanK using Maximum Likelihood as a tree building method.
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NanE ML tree. The figure shows a phylogenetic tree of NanE using Maximum Likelihood as a tree building method.
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GC content differences between Nan genes and genome. The table indicates the GC content differences between the Nan genes and the core genome of the bacterium where they are encoded.
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Distribution of Nan clusters among Bacteria. The table indicates the bacterial species that encode a full version of the Nan cluster (nanA, nanK, and nanE)
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Presence of mobile elements and Neuraminidases. The table indicates which species encode a neuraminidase, integrase and/or mobile elements in the proximities of the Nan cluster.
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NanA Bayesian All Bootstrap. The figure shows a phylogenetic tree of NanA using Bayesian analysis as a tree building method with the bootstrap values indicated.
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Additional species included in Figure 4. The table indicates the extra additional species that were included in Fig. 4 that did not contain a full Nan cluster but encoded NanA.
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