Identification of multiple independent horizontal gene transfers into poxviruses using a comparative genomics approach
Open Access
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Ecology and Evolution
- Vol. 8 (1), 67
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-67
Abstract
Poxviruses are important pathogens of humans, livestock and wild animals. These large dsDNA viruses have a set of core orthologs whose gene order is extremely well conserved throughout poxvirus genera. They also contain many genes with sequence and functional similarity to host genes which were probably acquired by horizontal gene transfer.Keywords
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