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Of the novel recA and rpoB homologs identified in the metagenomic data, some likely come from uncharacterized viruses while others may represent ancient paralogs not yet seen in any cultured organism.

Divergent lineages like these may represent ancient parthenogenetic lineages.

Thus, the gene clusters detected in GIs may represent ancient transfer events [ 55].

The distributions of these genes may represent ancient paralogy events or genes that have been transferred from bacteria to an ancient ancestor of the eukaryotes that retain them.

Putative transposases were found in equal numbers within both the accessory and core genomes; those within the core genome may represent ancient and non-functional genes.

We identified approximately 200,000 WSINelementsnts, but even this may be an underestimate, as we also found nearly 90,000 copies of fragmented CORE-SINEs that may represent ancient and diverged copies of WSINE1.

As the division between tribe and state in antiquity continues to blur, we may seem hyperaware of the inadequacy of terms such as "nomad," "pastoralist," "tribe," or "bedouin". The use of these may also be problematic because they tend to create dichotomies between tribe and state or nomad and sedentary that may not represent ancient realities.

Turtles resemble birds and lizards in the presence of microchromosomes, some of which may also represent ancient syntenies conserved since the rise of vertebrates 400 Ma (Burt 2002), but which are notably absent in mammals and crocodilians.

The presence of Gleditsia triacanthos (honey locust) and of the related Gymnocladus dioica (Kentucky coffee tree) in temperate regions is a striking exception to this generalization, however, and they may represent more ancient and relictual lineages in the subfamily.

This interaction pattern may represent an ancient flexible interaction of AP3 and PI lineage proteins (Liu et al. 2013).

This sequence may represent an ancient lineage of non-classical class II genes in reptiles.