On the origin of microbial ORFans: quantifying the strength of the evidence for viral lateral transfer
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background:</p> <p>The origin of microbial ORFans, ORFs having no detectable homology to other ORFs in the databases, is one of the unexplained puzzles of the post-genomic era. Several hypothesis on the origin of ORFans have been suggested in the last...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-08-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/6/63 |