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Figure 2

From: A recently transferred cluster of bacterial genes in Trichomonas vaginalis -lateral gene transfer and the fate of acquired genes

Figure 2

Phylogenetic tree illustrating possible evolutionary events ultimately giving rise to TvLF. Twenty-five genes and six non-annotated ORFs in the T. vaginalis G3 genome were acquired from a P. harei-like donor. Our hypothesis is that a close relative, extinct or not yet sequenced, to P. harei is the donor of the entire TvLF. Dotted arrows indicate alternative optimizations of the characters, and characters of uncertain position have dotted frames. For example, genes 3, 5 and 19 could have been acquired either by T. vaginalis after the LGT event or by the P. harei-like donor before the transfer. The three genes could also have been deleted in P. harei after the transfer event. Numbers above the bars indicate the count of events, while numbers below the bars refers to the gene abbreviation shown in Figure 2. (The same numbering is used in Figure 1 and in Additional file 1: Table S5, where a complete list of the genes is found).

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