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Figure 6

From: The power of phylogenetic approaches to detect horizontally transferred genes

Figure 6

Power of HGT detection using the symmetric difference of Robinson and Foulds distance (2 sigma significance level). The power of detection is calculated as the percent of gene families whose maximum likelihood tree after in silico transfer has a distance to the consensus tree that is more than two standard deviations larger than the mean of distances for all gene families before the in silico transfers. Each colored arc gives the results for one genome pair. The colors denote the percentage of genes that after the swap resulted in a significant conflict with the consensus. Panel A gives results from gene exchange experiments, and Panel B contains results from the experiment of gene donation with replacement.

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