An exceptional horizontal gene transfer in plastids: gene replacement by a distant bacterial paralog and evidence that haptophyte and cryptophyte plastids are sisters |
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Authors: | Danny W Rice Jeffrey D Palmer |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA |
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Abstract: | Background Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) to the plant mitochondrial genome has recently been shown to occur at a surprisingly high rate;
however, little evidence has been found for HGT to the plastid genome, despite extensive sequencing. In this study, we analyzed
all genes from sequenced plastid genomes to unearth any neglected cases of HGT and to obtain a measure of the overall extent
of HGT to the plastid. |
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