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From: Horizontal Gene Transfers in prokaryotes show differential preferences for metabolic and translational genes

Figure 3

The percentage of correctly detected HGT events at different transfer distances. A) This analysis is carried on simulated data as described in text. It can be seen that detection of HGT increases as the distance between acceptor and donor species increases. The detection reaches 100% when the transfer distance is greater than 0.12. But ~40% of horizontally transferred genes can still be detected at lower transfer distances (16S rRNA < 0.1). B) Similar simulation was carried out using Novichkov et al.'s method. It can be seen that Novichkov et al.'s method is customized to detect only transfers between very distantly related bacteria (16S rRNA > 0.36).

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