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We suggest two possibilities for the missing genes: 1) Either the missing genes were recently lost, in which case the pathway is no longer intact and we would expect the remaining genes with no other roles will eventually accumulate mutations and be lost, or 2) a diverged homologous gene or a nonhomologous neofuncionalized gene may take the place of the missing gene and keep the pathway intact.

For the reference strain 18323, the missing genes were found in 17 of 20 functional categories.

The three categories without missing genes were replication, recombination and repair, cell cycle control, mitosis and meiosis, and nucleotide transport and metabolism (Figure 3).

CGH Result indicated that the missing genes were different in different strains.

Diplotypes were generated based on the 4 studied SNPs, missing genes were imputed.

In that study, lower accuracy was obtained when missing genes were randomly distributed among the sampled taxa, compared to data sets in which the missing genes were restricted to monophyletic subsets of taxa.

Not all the missing genes are interesting.

Many are probably redundant and not essential or don't affect health 3% of the missing genes are involved in distinguishing smells, which may have mattered for ancient humans but not for modern ones.

The functions of the missing genes are mostly related to metabolic activity, the production of energy and cell motility, and transcription.

It is clear that the defective tra gene clusters of pO55, pO157 and pSFO157 are not functional for conjugational transfer, as many of the missing genes are required for conjugation [37].

A total of 68 (38%) missing genes are from PE-PGRS gene family.