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Volume 9, Issue 7, Article R109Huang and Gogarten2008 Open Access Research Concerted gene recruitment in early plant evolution * † Jinling Huang and J Peter Gogarten Addresses: *Department of Biology, Howell Science Complex, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA. †Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, 91 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. Correspondence: Jinling Huang. Email: huangj@ Published: 8 July 2008 Received: 30 April 2008 Revised: 24 June 2008 Genome Biology 2008, 9:R109 (doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-7-r109) Accepted: 8 July 2008 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2008/9/7/R109 © 2008 Huang and Gogarten; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. to the split of red algae and green plants./pEukaryotic horizontal gene transferpAnalyses of the red algal itCyanidioschyzon/it genome identified 37 genes that were acquired from non-organellar sources prior Abstract Background: Horizontal gene transfer occurs frequently in prokaryotes and unicellular eukaryotes. Anciently acquired genes, if retained among descendants, might significantly affect the long-term evolution of the recipient lineage. However, no systematic studies o