The Fate of Laterally Transferred Genes:

Life in the Fast Lane to Adaptation or Death


The taxon/strain specific predicted ORFs in each genome were used to BLAST against 220 other bacterial genomes.

1) All the GenBank accession numbers of the genomes are listed Here.

2) Supplementary information of this paper is shown Here.

3) Further information shows that the fast rate of evolution of group specific (recently transferred) genes is not due to the group specific non-gene ORFs. Evolutionary rates of the Bc group specific genes were remeasured only using the genes having matches elsewhere in the complete genome database. Results are listed Here.

Taxa information

Ba1 (Bacillus anthracis Ames) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_003997)

Ba2 (B. anthracis `Ames Ancestor') (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_007530)

Ba3 (B. anthracis Sterne) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_005945)

Bt (B. thuringiensis) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_005957)

Bc1 (B. cereus ZK) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_006274)

Bc2 (B. cereus ATCC 10987) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_003909)

Bc3 (B. cereus ATCC 14579) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_004722)

Gk (Geobacillus kaustophilus) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_006510)

Bl (B. licheniformis) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_006270)

Bs (B. subtilis) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_000964)

Bk (B. clausii) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_006582)

Bh (B. halodurans) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_002570)

Oi (Oceanobacillus iheyensis) (NCBI RefSeq accesion: NC_004193)

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