Recombination between elongation factor 1 genes from distantly related archaeal lineages
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*Center for Computational Sciences and Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan; †Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Genome Atlantic, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 3J5; and ‡Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Genome Atlantic, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 1X5
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