Highways of gene sharing in prokaryotes |
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Authors: | Beiko Robert G Harlow Timothy J Ragan Mark A |
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Institution: | Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Australian Research Council Centre in Bioinformatics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia. |
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Abstract: | The extent to which lateral genetic transfer has shaped microbial genomes has major implications for the emergence of community structures. We have performed a rigorous phylogenetic analysis of >220,000 proteins from genomes of 144 prokaryotes to determine the contribution of gene sharing to current prokaryotic diversity, and to identify "highways" of sharing between lineages. The inferred relationships suggest a pattern of inheritance that is largely vertical, but with notable exceptions among closely related taxa, and among distantly related organisms that live in similar environments. |
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