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An insertion operation transforms the genome on the left into the genome on the right. The inserted material, Y, is obtained by horizontal transfer and hence is not present in the parent genome (shaded in the figure). Analogously, in a deletion operation, a two-breakpoint operation of chromosome fission generates two chromosomes on the left, then one of them, Y, is lost.
