[Taxacom] Genes jump: bacteria to ticks

[Stephen Thorpe]

The Xenoturbella example is a classic: doi 10.1038/nature01851

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On Sat, 29/11/14, David Campbell <pleuronaia at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Genes jump: bacteria to ticks
 To: "Bob Mesibov" <mesibov at southcom.com.au>
 Cc: "TAXACOM" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Saturday, 29 November, 2014, 1:09 AM
 
 http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/content/58/4/445.full.pdf+html
 Even if the genes haven't actually jumped
 they can cause problems if you
 don't
 know what you're sequencing.  Unlike morphology,
 it's not hard to be
 mistaken about the
 source of DNA.  Visual examination of an alignment and
 BLAST searches are two good ways to check for
 anomalous sequences, but
 perhaps the most
 important thing is to remember that the fact that the
 latest analysis produces a novel result is not
 proof that previous work was
 wrong - the
 error may lie in the new work.
 
 On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:44 AM, Bob Mesibov
 <mesibov at southcom.com.au>
 wrote:
 
 > http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13965.html
 >
 > Contributes to the
 noise in phylogenetic inference, if you don't know
 what
 > you're sequencing.
 > --
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 Mesibov
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 and
 > School of Land and Food, University
 of Tasmania
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 -- 
 Dr. David Campbell
 Assistant
 Professor, Geology
 Department of Natural
 Sciences
 Box 7270
 Gardner-Webb University
 Boiling
 Springs NC 28017
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