OrgConv: detection of gene conversion using consensus sequences and its application in plant mitochondrial and chloroplast homologs

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The ancestry of mitochondria and chloroplasts traces back to separate endosymbioses of once free-living bacteria. The highly reduced genomes of these two organelles therefore contain very distant homologs that only recently have been...

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Main Author: Hao Weilong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-03-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/114