Title |
Horizontal gene transfer in silkworm, Bombyx mori
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, May 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-12-248 |
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Authors |
Bo Zhu, Miao-Miao Lou, Guan-Lin Xie, Guo-Qing Zhang, Xue-Ping Zhou, Bin Li, Gu-Lei Jin |
Abstract |
The domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori, is the model insect for the order Lepidoptera, has economically important values, and has gained some representative behavioral characteristics compared to its wild ancestor. The genome of B. mori has been fully sequenced while function analysis of BmChi-h and BmSuc1 genes revealed that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) maybe bestow a clear selective advantage to B. mori. However, the role of HGT in the evolutionary history of B. mori is largely unexplored. In this study, we compare the whole genome of B. mori with those of 382 prokaryotic and eukaryotic species to investigate the potential HGTs. |
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