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1: Genome Biol. 2007;8(2):402.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Systematic overestimation of gene gain through false diagnosis of gene absence.

Zhaxybayeva O, Nesbø CL, Doolittle WF.

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

PMID: 17328791 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC1852405