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Mendeley readers
| Title |
On the need for widespread horizontal gene transfers under genome size constraint
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Biology Direct, August 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1745-6150-4-28 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hervé Isambert, Richard R Stein |
| Abstract |
While eukaryotes primarily evolve by duplication-divergence expansion (and reduction) of their own gene repertoire with only rare horizontal gene transfers, prokaryotes appear to evolve under both gene duplications and widespread horizontal gene transfers over long evolutionary time scales. But, the evolutionary origin of this striking difference in the importance of horizontal gene transfers remains by and large a mystery. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 56 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 3 | 5% |
| United States | 3 | 5% |
| Spain | 2 | 4% |
| Mexico | 2 | 4% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Russia | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 5% |
| Unknown | 38 | 68% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 20 | 36% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 29% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 7% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Unknown | 2 | 4% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 35 | 63% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 9% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Chemistry | 2 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Unknown | 5 | 9% |