Genome Evolution Course – 2011
Evolution by Horizontal Gene Transfer
Topics
- The story of horizontal
transfer
- Detecting horizontal transfer
in genomic sequences
- Unexpected ranking of
sequence similarity among homologs
- Unexpected
phylogenetic tree topology
- Unusual phyletic pattern
- Conservation of gene
order
- Anomalous DNA
composition
- Evolutionary scenarios of
horizontal transfers
- The notion of a
"core" of genes and the tree of life in its weak form
- The role of horizontal
transfer in bacterial diversity
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Evolution Course.
Itai Yanai, yanai@technion.ac.il