Figure 3.

Distance tree for genes horizontally transferred to M. infera. The distance tree for MESINF_1317 was searched against the NCBI NR database using BLASTp. It indicates that MESINF_1317 is a Beta glucosidase-like glycosyl hydrolase protein potentially transferred from an organism of the order Bacillales, phylum Firmicutes. For a greater portion of the horizontally-transferred genes (55%), protein function is unknown, and inferring origin of the gene can be helpful in predicting protein function.