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Horizontal Gene Transfers in prokaryotes show differential preferences for metabolic and translational genes

Aditi Kanhere1,2* and Martin Vingron1

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1 Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestraße 63–73, 14195 Berlin, Germany

2 MRC/UCL Centre for Medical Molecular Virology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London W1T 4JF, UK

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:9 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-9

Published: 10 January 2009

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Additional file 1:

List of COGs. List of COGs used in this study.

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Percentage of HGT. Percentage of horizontally acquired genes in different genomes.

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Archaeal-Bacterial HGT. HGT between Archaea and Bacteria.

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Intra-phyletic transfer. HGT among different bacterial phyla.

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Name of organisms in this study. Name, abbreviation and classification of organisms, whose genomic sequences were used in this study.

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Likelihood based tree comparisons. All likelihood based tree comparison outputs are provided.

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