Identify horizontally tranferred genes

Question

[vembha94]

Guys,

In M. tuberculosis bacterium, there are 11 Two-Component Signal transduction pairs encoded in its genome. I want to identify which of these genes have been acquired through Horizontal (Lateral) Gene Transfer (HGT/LGT). How to do it? Where could I start?

PS: I am not an expert in Bioinformatics.

Answer 1

[natasha.sernova]

See these links, they may be helpful:

How To Find Out Horizontally Transferred Genes In Bacteria?

How To Detect Horizontal Gene Transfer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferring_horizontal_gene_transfer

http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1002184

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer