An acquisition account of genomic islands based on genome signature comparisons

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Recent analyses of prokaryotic genome sequences have demonstrated the important force horizontal gene transfer constitutes in genome evolution. Horizontally acquired sequences are detectable by, among others, their dinucleotide compo...

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Main Authors: Luyf ACM, Thygesen HH, Bart A, van Passel MWJ, van Kampen AHC, van der Ende A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-11-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/6/163