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Some of the morons have been shown to be related to other bacterial genes, suggesting that they may at first have been host genes integrated in the phage genome [ 22 ] . These genes may then have diverged rapidly because phages are known to have evolutionary rates orders of magnitude higher than those of bacteria [ 25 ] . Morons seem rarely to confer a direct advantage on the phage, but rather stabilize the host-prophage interaction by slightly increasing host fitness [ 20 ] . Therefore, they may undergo weaker selection pressure than genes directly involved in the phage life-cycle and be more sensitive to the mutational bias inherent to parasitic sequences [ 13 ] . From our results, it appears that whatever the nature of the organism in which the gene was first recruited, its compositional characteristics no longer represent its previous genome context.
Given rates of change for each nucleotide at each codon position, determined jointly by selection, mutation, and the genetic code structure, we can predict the codon and amino-acid composition of a particular sequence from its overall compositional properties, without reference to related sequences.
Other methods based on compositional analysis often show the same result: that is, recently acquired genes tend to share characteristics such as codon usage and G+C content [ 4 6 ] .
The compositional possibilities must have seemed endless, every change in the light disclosing a fresh set of visual effects waiting to be captured.
Hence, the large majority of LTGs detected by compositional approaches do not necessarily originate in distant organisms.
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