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Schematic representation of the evolutionary histories of (A) recA/RAD51 family; (B) MSH family; (C) MLH family; (D) SMC family; and (E) MCM family. The topologies are adopted from previous phylogenetic analysis on each gene families. Dotted boxes denote ancient duplication events in early eukaryotes. Prokaryotic outgroups are shown in grey.
