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Comprehensive analysis of pseudogenes in prokaryotes: widespread gene decay and failure of putative horizontally transferred genes

Yang Liu, Paul M Harrison, Victor Kunin and Mark Gerstein*

Genome Biology 2004, 5:R64 doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-9-r64

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The mosaicism of plasmids revealed by atypical genes detection and analysis

Emanuele Bosi, Renato Fani, Marco Fondi BMC Genomics 2011, 12:403 (8 August 2011)

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Mobile genetic element proliferation and gene inactivation impact over the genome structure and metabolic capabilities of Sodalis glossinidius, the secondary endosymbiont of tsetse flies

Eugeni Belda, Andrés Moya, Stephen Bentley, Francisco J Silva BMC Genomics 2010, 11:449 (22 July 2010)

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Origin and fate of pseudogenes in Hemiascomycetes: a comparative analysis

Ingrid Lafontaine, Bernard Dujon BMC Genomics 2010, 11:260 (22 April 2010)

Pseudogenes in different species of Hemiascomycete yeasts cluster in subtelomeric regions where they outnumber functional genes, and are not conserved between species, providing evidence for adaptation of individual yeasts functional repertoires

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Implications of high level pseudogene transcription in Mycobacterium leprae

Diana L Williams, Richard A Slayden, Amol Amin, Alejandra N Martinez, Tana L Pittman, Alex Mira, Anirban Mitra, Valakunja Nagaraja, Norman E Morrison, Milton Moraes, Thomas P Gillis BMC Genomics 2009, 10:397 (25 August 2009)

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Genomic evidence for non-random endemic populations of decaying exons from mammalian genes

David Morais, Paul M Harrison BMC Genomics 2009, 10:309 (13 July 2009)

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Insights and inferences about integron evolution from genomic data

Diana R Nemergut, Michael S Robeson, Robert F Kysela, Andrew P Martin, Steven K Schmidt, Rob Knight BMC Genomics 2008, 9:261 (31 May 2008)

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Detecting the molecular scars of evolution in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by analyzing interrupted coding sequences

Caroline Deshayes, Emmanuel Perrodou, Daniel Euphrasie, Eric Frapy, Olivier Poch, Pablo Bifani, Odile Lecompte, Jean-Marc Reyrat BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:78 (6 March 2008)

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Visualization of pseudogenes in intracellular bacteria reveals the different tracks to gene destruction

Hans-Henrik Fuxelius, Alistair C Darby, Nam-Huyk Cho, Siv GE Andersson Genome Biology 2008, 9:R42 (26 February 2008)

Variably present genes and pseudogenes in Rickettsia species tend to have been acquired more recently and to be more divergent from the genes conserved across all species

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Systematic overestimation of gene gain through false diagnosis of gene absence

Olga Zhaxybayeva, Camilla L Nesbø, W Ford Doolittle Genome Biology 2007, 8:402 (26 February 2007)

Usual BLAST-based methods for assessing gene presence and absence lead to systematic overestimation of within-species gene gain by lateral transfer.

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Interrupted coding sequences in Mycobacterium smegmatis: authentic mutations or sequencing errors?

Caroline Deshayes, Emmanuel Perrodou, Sebastien Gallien, Daniel Euphrasie, Christine Schaeffer, Alain Van-Dorsselaer, Olivier Poch, Odile Lecompte, Jean-Marc Reyrat Genome Biology 2007, 8:R20 (12 February 2007)

The question of whether bacterial interrupted coding sequences (ICDS) should be individually verified to produce an informative genome sequence is raised after bioinformatic, proteomic and sequencing analyses reveal that a significant proportion of ICDSs in the deposited genome sequence of Mycobacterium smegmatis are a result of sequencing errors.

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The role of laterally transferred genes in adaptive evolution

Pradeep Marri, Weilong Hao, G Brian Golding BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7(Suppl 1):S8 (8 February 2007)

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Similarity-based gene detection: using COGs to find evolutionarily-conserved ORFs

Bradford C Powell, Clyde A Hutchison BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:31 (19 January 2006)