Background: The pan-genome of a bacterial species consists of a core and an accessory gene pool. The accessory genome is thought to be an important source of genetic variability i...
Chad Laing, Cody Buchanan, Eduardo N. Taboada, Yon...
Background: Ortholog detection methods present a powerful approach for finding genes that participate in similar biological processes across different organisms, extending our und...
Fadi Towfic, Susan VanderPlas, Casey A. Oliver, Ol...
In the last few years, it has become routine to use gene-order data to reconstruct phylogenies, both in terms of edge distances (parsimonious sequences of operations that transform...
Joel V. Earnest-DeYoung, Emmanuelle Lerat, Bernard...
Background: Phylogenetic analysis of large, multiple-gene datasets, assembled from public sequence databases, is rapidly becoming a popular way to approach difficult phylogenetic ...
The Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software is a desktop application designed for comparative analysis of homologous gene sequences either from multigene families...
Sudhir Kumar, Masatoshi Nei, Joel Dudley, Koichiro...