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SUBMITTER: Choi IG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1815472 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi In-Geol IG Kim Sung-Hou SH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070307 11
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is thought to play an important role in the evolution of species and innovation of genomes. There have been many convincing evidences for HGT for specific genes or gene families, but there has been no estimate of the global extent of HGT. Here, we present a method of identifying HGT events within a given protein family and estimate the global extent of HGT in all curated protein domain families ( approximately 8,000) listed in the Pfam database. The results suggest ...[more]