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Comment
. 2008 Nov 4;105(44):16827-8.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0809525105. Epub 2008 Oct 30.

A new SPIN on horizontal transfer

Damon Lisch  1
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A new SPIN on horizontal transfer

Damon Lisch. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The author declares no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
A phylogeny of a variety of tetrapods illustrating incidences of HT. Lineages marked as red lines are those in which SPIN transposons were detected. The purple ovals represent the estimated time of HT as determined by the estimated age of the transposons in each species; estimates for lizard were not possible. Dashed lines represent estimated times of HTs. Time is expressed in millions of years.
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