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One pattern that has emerged from comparative analyses of fully sequenced genomes is that, although different pathogen and symbiont lineages approach the same minimal genome size, the inventories of genes retained by these organisms are extremely different [ 3, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36].
Consistent with the cumulative distributions of D(A) - D(B) in Figure 4, most sequences lie above the identity function, and resemble the plant host more closely than the microbial symbiont.
The common ancestor of this fold might have emerged in a mobile genomic symbiont or parasite and subsequently spread widely across viral and transposon genomes.
2003) and the phylogenetic congruence observed in numerous studies suggest that aphids have won this conflict over symbiont transfer.
These patterns have been interpreted as a general signature of the symbiotic origin of eukaryotes [ 2 3 ] and horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of symbiont genes to the nucleus [ 4 5 6 7 8 9 ] . On the one hand, this complexity resulting from HGT can obscure some aspects of evolutionary history [ 8 ] . However, HGT also can provide the means to investigate otherwise difficult questions, such as inferring the number of symbiotic events and estimating the time of those events.