Horizontal gene transfer of an entire metabolic pathway between a eukaryotic alga and its DNA virus

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Figure 4.
Figure 4.

Synonymous (Ks) and nonsynonymous (Ka) substitution rates for the orthologous sequences between EhV-86 and EhV-163. Of the seven EhV-86 sphingolipid enzyme genes, EhV-163 orthologs were found for four genes (SPT, LAG1, Dsd1-like FAD, LPP), which are indicated as diamonds.

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  1. Genome Res. 19: 1441-1449

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