Horizontal Transfer, Not Duplication, Drives the Expansion of Protein Families in Prokaryotes

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Todd J. Treangen ,

* E-mail: treangen@pasteur.fr

Current address: Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Département Génomes et Génétique, Paris, France, CNRS, URA2171, Paris, France, UPMC Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Atelier de Bioinformatique, Paris, France
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Eduardo P. C. Rocha

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Département Génomes et Génétique, Paris, France, CNRS, URA2171, Paris, France, UPMC Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Atelier de Bioinformatique, Paris, France
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