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SUBMITTER: Coimbra NDR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7186787 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Coimbra Nilson Da Rocha NDR Goes-Neto Aristoteles A Azevedo Vasco V Ouangraoua Aïda A
Genome biology and evolution 20200401 4
Horizontal gene transfer is a common mechanism in Bacteria that has contributed to the genomic content of existing organisms. Traditional methods for estimating bacterial phylogeny, however, assume only vertical inheritance in the evolution of homologous genes, which may result in errors in the estimated phylogenies. We present a new method for estimating bacterial phylogeny that accounts for the presence of genes acquired by horizontal gene transfer between genomes. The method identifies and co ...[more]