Patterns and Implications of Gene Gain and Loss in the Evolution of Prochlorococcus

• Gregory C Kettler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gregory C Kettler, Adam C Martiny

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Adam C Martiny ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gregory C Kettler, Adam C Martiny

  ¤ Current address: Department of Earth System Science and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Katherine Huang,

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jeremy Zucker,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Maureen L Coleman,

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sebastien Rodrigue,

  Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Feng Chen,

  Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

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• Alla Lapidus,

  Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

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• Steven Ferriera,

  Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Justin Johnson,

  Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Claudia Steglich,

  Affiliation Department of Biology II/Experimental Bioinformatics, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• George M Church,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Paul Richardson,

  Affiliation Joint Genome Institute, United States Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

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• Sallie W Chisholm

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: chisholm@mit.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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