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Inter-genomic displacement via lateral gene transfer of bacterial trp operons in an overall context of vertical genealogy

Gary Xie, Carol A Bonner, Jian Song, Nemat O Keyhani and Roy A Jensen*

BMC Biology 2004, 2:15 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-2-15

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The tryptophan pathway genes of the Sargasso Sea metagenome: new operon structures and the prevalence of non-operon organization

Juliana Kagan, Itai Sharon, Oded Beja, Jonathan C Kuhn Genome Biology 2008, 9:R20 (27 January 2008)

An analysis of the seven genes of the tryptophan pathway in the Sargasso Sea metagenome shows that the majority of contigs and scaffolds contain whole or split operons that are similar to previously analyzed trp gene organizations.

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Modelling the evolution of the archaeal tryptophan synthase

Rainer Merkl BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:59 (10 April 2007)

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The TyrA family of aromatic-pathway dehydrogenases in phylogenetic context

Jian Song, Carol A Bonner, Murray Wolinsky, Roy A Jensen BMC Biology 2005, 3:13 (12 May 2005)

An extensive phylogeny of the TyrA dehydrogenase family reveals a pattern of narrowing substrate specificity and a number of evolutionary "jumps" due to fusion with aromatic pathway genes, guiding the way for evolutionary analyses of other metabolic pathways.