The Microbe: The Basics of Structure, Morphology, and Physiology as They Relate to Microbial Characterization and Attribution

Chemical and Physical Signatures for Microbial Forensics · 2011 · PMC7123343

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may not be significantno p-value reported

Since lateral gene transfer involves the transfer of whole genes, duplicated nonfunctional genes, and partial gene segments, the presence of a particular sequence may or may not be significant.

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