Phylogenomic approaches underestimate eukaryotic gene transfer
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Phylogenomic approaches underestimate eukaryotic gene transfer
Phylogenomic approaches have shown that eukaryotes acquire genes via gene transfer. However, there are two fundamental problems for most of these analyses; only transfers from prokaryotes are analyzed and the screening procedures applied assume that gene transfer is rare for eukaryotes. Directed studies of the impact of gene transfer on diverse eukaryotic lineages produce a much more complex pi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mobile Genetic Elements
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2159-256X
DOI: 10.4161/mge.19668