Evolutionary BiologyFEMS Microbiology LettersPeer-reviewed
The probability of a unique gene occurrence at the tips of a phylogenetic tree in the absence of horizontal gene transfer (the last-one-out)
Nico Bremer, William F. Martin, Mike Steel
The paper calculates the probability of last-one-out gene distributions under a Markovian loss model and shows gene loss can explain observed patterns resembling horizontal gene transfer.