BMC Genomics

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A genomic survey of the fish parasite Spironucleus salmonicida indicates genomic plasticity among diplomonads and significant lateral gene transfer in eukaryote genome evolution

Jan O Andersson1*, Åsa M Sjögren2,6, David S Horner3,7, Colleen A Murphy4, Patricia L Dyal3, Staffan G Svärd1, John M Logsdon5, Mark A Ragan4,8, Robert P Hirt3,9 and Andrew J Roger2

Author Affiliations

1 Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Center, Uppsala, Sweden

2 The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

3 Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

4 Institute for Marine Biosciences, National Research Council of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

5 Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

6 Department of Microbiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

7 Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolare e Biotecnologie, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

8 ARC Centre in Bioinformatics, and Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

9 School of Biology, The Devonshire building, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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BMC Genomics 2007, 8:51 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-51

Published: 14 February 2007

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Additional file 1:

A table showing the characteristics of the finished contigs.

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Additional file 2:

Complete list of gene annotations.

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Additional file 3:

A table showing the genes putatively involved in LGT events.

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Additional file 4:

Phylogenetic trees 1–25 for genes putatively involved in LGT events and listed in Additional file 3.

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Additional file 5:

Phylogenetic trees 26–50 for genes putatively involved in LGT events and listed in Additional file 3.

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Additional file 6:

Phylogenetic trees 51–72 for genes putatively involved in LGT events and listed in Additional file 3.

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