Table 1. Incidence of lateral gene transfer among single-copy genes with different phylogenetic distributions.
| No. of species
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| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |
| No. of single-copy genes | 167 | 188 | 137 | 78 | 69 | 109 | 98 | 205 |
| No. rejecting reference tree | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Trees supporting LGT, % | 2.99 | 1.06 | 2.19 | 3.85 | 1.45 | 2.80 | 5.10 | 0.98 |
Only those genes whose homologs are present in 6-13 of the species are shown. Orthologs were aligned and evaluated to recover topologies that differed significantly from the reference tree.