Research Article

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

Table 2

Origins of HGT candidates at the genus level.

PhylumGenus1Number of contigs

AlphaproteobacteriaAnaplasma4
Bartonella8
Ehrlichia1
Neorickettsia8
Rickettsia5
Wolbachia56
Unassigned8

BacteroidetesBacteroides4
Cytophaga1
Dyadobacter1
Flavobacteria2187
Flavobacterium12
Kordia18
Leadbetterella3
Mucilaginibacter1
Paludibacter9
Pedobacter1
Polaribacter37
Prevotella10
Psychroflexus4
Spirosoma4
Unassigned78

FirmicutesClostridium4
Bacillus239
Enterococcus83
Epulopiscium4
Erysipelothrix1
Geobacillus3
Lactobacillus4
Lactococcus1
Leuconostoc17
Listeria31
Lysinibacillus7
Oenococcus1
Paenibacillus1
Peptoniphilus1
Staphylococcus134
Streptococcus9
Thermoanaerobacter3
Turicibacter2
Veillonella3
Unassigned210

GammaproteobacteriaAcinetobacter4
Enterobacter6
Escherichia1
Haemophilus1
Shewanella1
Vibrio1
Xylella1
Unassigned8

Prediction was obtained using Genus-BLSOM. 2Classification to the class level was obtained.