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A hidden reservoir of integrative elements is the major source of recently acquired foreign genes and ORFans in archaeal and bacterial genomes

Diego Cortez, Patrick Forterre* and Simonetta Gribaldo*

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Institut Pasteur, Département de Microbiologie, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles, Rue du Dr Roux, 75 724 PARIS cedex 15, France

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:R65 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-6-r65

Published: 16 June 2009

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Additional data file 1:

Detailed information on CAGs for the 122 analyzed genomes.

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Additional data file 2:

Figure S1 shows the statistical results of the sizes of CAGs' ORFs with respect to the size of core genes. Figure S2 shows the statistics of ORF and ORFan sizes. Figure S3 shows the results of a χ2 test on the frequencies of ORFans inside and outside CAGs.

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Additional data file 3:

Detailed results from the 119 analyzed genomes.

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