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BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has allowed bacteria to evolve many new capabilities. Because transferred genes perform many medically important functions, such as conf...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Background: The process of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is believed to be widespread in Bacteria and Archaea, but little comparative data is available addressing its occurrence ...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 15 days ago
2011
Background: In the last decades, microarray technology has spread, leading to a dramatic increase of publicly available datasets. The first statistical tools developed were focuse...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Background: Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that allow for the representation of evolutionary events acting at the population level, like recombin...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: Gene duplication events have played a significant role in genome evolution, particularly in plants. Exhaustive searches for all members of a known gene family as well ...