Genome Biology

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Resolving gene transfer issues

Reiner Veitia

  • Correspondence: Reiner Veitia

Genome Biology 2001, 2:reports0026 doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-8-reports0026

Published: 8 August 2001

Abstract

A phylogenetic analysis has cast doubts on previously reported cases of putative horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to vertebrates.