RECOMB
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. In a horizontal gene transfer (HGT) event a gene is transferred between two species that do not share an ancestor-descendant relationship. Typically, no more than a few g...
BMCBI
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
Background: Genomic islands can be observed in many microbial genomes. These stretches of DNA have a conspicuous composition with regard to sequence or encoded functions. Genomic ...
BMCBI
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
Background: A new sequence independent bioinformatics approach allowing genome-wide search for proteins with similar three dimensional structures has been developed. By utilizing ...
JCB
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Prokaryotic organisms share genetic material across species boundaries by means of a process known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT). This process has great significance for unde...
PR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
The tree representation of evolutionary relationship oversimplifies the view of the process of evolution as it cannot take into account the events such as horizontal gene transfer...
ALMOB
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Two important and not yet solved problems in bacterial genome research are the identification of horizontally transferred genes and the prediction of gene expression levels. Both ...
ICCS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Phylogenetic networks model evolutionary histories in the presence of non-treelike events such as hybrid speciation and horizontal gene transfer. In spite of their widely acknowled...
RECOMB
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2004
Springer
RECOMB
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2006
Springer
We introduce a Markov model for the evolution of a gene family along a phylogeny. The model includes parameters for the rates of horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication, and gen...
RECOMB
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2006
Springer
Prokaryotic organisms share genetic material across species boundaries by means of a process known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Detecting this process bears great significanc...