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Evolution of mosaic operons by horizontal gene transfer and gene displacement in situ

Marina V Omelchenko^1,², Kira S Makarova², Yuri I Wolf², Igor B Rogozin² and Eugene V Koonin²^*

¹ Department of Pathology, FE Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799, USA

² National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

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Genome Biology 2003, 4:R55 doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-9-r55

Published: 29 August 2003

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Additional data, including schematics of operon organization and phylogenetic trees for all gene clusters listed in Table 2

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