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. 2009 Feb 27;191(8):2501–2511. doi: 10.1128/JB.01779-08

FIG. 4.

FIG. 4.

Reconstruction of the origin of secondary chromosomes and related large replicons within the Rhizobiales through transfers of gene clusters from the primordial chromosome to what originally was a repABC-type plasmid (called here the ITR plasmid). LGT, lateral gene transfer.