Horizontal gene transfer in chromalveolates

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the non-genealogical transfer of genetic material between different organisms, is considered a potentially important mechanism of genome evolution in eukaryotes. Using phylogenomic analyses of expresse...

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Main Authors: Bhattacharya Debashish, Nosenko Tetyana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-09-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/173