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The most straightforward version of this type of analysis, to which we hereinafter refer to as 'genome-tree' building, involves scaling-up the traditional tree-building approach and analyzing the phylogenetic trees for multiple gene families (in principle, all families represented in many genomes), in an attempt to derive a consensus, 'organismal' phylogeny [ 3 4 5 ] . However, because of the wide spread of horizontal gene transfer and lineage-specific gene loss, at least in the prokaryotic world, comparison of trees for different families and consensus derivation may become highly problematic [ 6 7 ] . Probably due to all these problems, a pessimistic conclusion has been reached that prokaryotic phylogeny might not be reconstructable from protein sequences, at least with current phylogenetic methods [ 4 ] .
Thus there appears to have been a lineage-specific proliferation and dissemination of the SBHM domains in bacteria.
The AcmB subfamily shows a lineage-specific expansion in the genome of S. aureus , with around seven paralogs.
The critical issue with all these approaches to genome tree building is to what extent each of them reflects phylogeny and to what extent they are affected by other evolutionary processes, such as lineage-specific gene loss and horizontal gene transfer.
Here, we address another central aspect of the evolution of gene fusions, namely, do fusions of the same domains in different phylogenetic lineages reflect vertical descent, possibly accompanied by multiple lineage-specific fission events, or independent fusion events, or horizontal transfer of the fused gene?
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