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The conservation and evolutionary modularity of metabolism

José M Peregrín-Alvarez1,2*, Chris Sanford3,1 and John Parkinson3,4,1*

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1 Program in Molecular Structure and Function, Hospital for Sick Children, College Street, Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7, Canada

2 Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Malaga, Avda. Cevantes, 29071 Malaga, Spain

3 Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada

4 Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Kings' College Circle, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:R63 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-6-r63

Published: 12 June 2009

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Supplemental results, discussion, methods and Figures S1-S7.

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The complete and partial genomes used in this study.

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Conservation of individual enzymes.

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Enzymes restricted to either bacteria or eukaryotes.

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Conservation of 118 metabolic pathways analyzed in this study.

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Modularity of 166 metabolic pathways analyzed in this study.

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Conservation of 25 regulatory pathways defined by KEGG.

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