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Table 5 Lateral genetic transfer of other regulators within the E. coli - Shigella clade.

From: Within-species lateral genetic transfer and the evolution of transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli and Shigella

Category

Observable recombination breakpoint(s)

No observable recombination breakpoint(s)

Totals

Protein tree (amino acid) discordant with reference

2 Within-gene (fragmentary) lateral

22 Whole-gene lateral

24

Protein tree (amino acid) concordant with reference

2 Within-gene (fragmentary) lateral

32 Vertical

34

Totals

4

54

58

  1. Other regulators are the regulatory gene sets which fall within neither the neighbour or global regulator categories.