Evidence of a chimeric genome in the cyanobacterial ancestor of plastids
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a vexing fact of life for microbial phylogeneticists. Given the substantial rates of HGT observed in modern-day bacterial chromosomes, it is envisaged that ancient prokaryotic genomes must have been...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-04-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/117 |