Figure 7

Summary of putative lateral gene transfers affecting amoebozoa, ciliates, and diplomonads, and parabasalids. Lateral gene transfers inferred from Figures 2-6, as well as previously published phylogenetic analyses [10, 18] discussed in the text, are indicated on the topology; gene transfers from prokaryotes are indicated by black arrows, intra-eukaryote transfers between the groups are indicated by orange arrows, and gene introduced from uncertain origins are indicated by grey arrow. Please notice that the figure does not delineate the order of individual transfer events on each branch, and that plausible alternative hypotheses do exist to explain some of the unexpected phylogenetic positions of eukaryotes, here indicated as gene transfer events, our currently preferred hypothesis (see text for details).