<italic toggle="yes">k</italic>-mer Similarity, Networks of Microbial Genomes, and Taxonomic Rank

ABSTRACT Microbial genomes have been shaped by parent-to-offspring (vertical) descent and lateral genetic transfer. These processes can be distinguished by alignment-based inference and comparison of phylogenetic trees for individual gene families, but this approach is not scalable to whole-genome s...

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Main Authors: Guillaume Bernard, Paul Greenfield, Mark A. Ragan, Cheong Xin Chan
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/31596908f9ce4e728d8f4a5919457e6f
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