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Analyzing Patterns of Microbial Evolution Using the Mauve Genome Alignment System
Abstract
During the course of evolution, genomes can undergo large-scale mutation events such as rearrangement and lateral transfer. Such mutations can result in significant variations in gene order and gene content among otherwise closely related organisms. The Mauve genome alignment system can successfully identify such rearrangement and lateral transfer events in comparisons of multiple microbial genomes even under high levels of recombination. This chapter outlines the main features of Mauve and provides examples that describe how to use Mauve to conduct a rigorous multiple genome comparison and study evolutionary patterns.
Affiliation(s): (2) Department of Computer Scienc, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
(3) Department of Software, Technical University of Catalonia-Barcelona, Barcelona
(4) Department of Software, Technical University of Catalonia-Barcelona, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona
(5) Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences Genome Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Barcelona
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology  |  Volume: 396  |  Pub. Date: Nov-29-2007  |  Page Range: 135-152  |  DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-515-2_10
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