Research Article

Horizontally Transferred Genetic Elements in the Tsetse Fly Genome: An Alignment-Free Clustering Approach Using Batch Learning Self-Organising Map (BLSOM)

Table 1

Origins of HGT candidates at the phylum level.

PhylumNumber of contigs

Actinobacteria10
Alphaproteobacteria90
Aquificae2
Bacteroidetes370
Betaproteobacteria4
Crenarchaeota1
Cyanobacteria1
Epsilonproteobacteria16
Euryarchaeota12
Firmicutes758
Fusobacteria1
Gammaproteobacteria23
Spirochetes1
Unassigned1,671

Total2,960

Prediction was obtained using Tsetse+Prokaryotes-BLSOM.