A statistical method to identify recombination in bacterial genomes based on SNP incompatibility

Abstract Background Phylogeny estimation for bacteria is likely to reflect their true evolutionary histories only if they are highly clonal. However, recombination events could occur during evolution for some species. The reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from an alignment without considering rec...

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Main Authors: Yi-Pin Lai, Thomas R. Ioerger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-11-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-018-2456-z