Mr Dempsey notes that "the Soviet-era tanks operated by the separatists have until now represented those that could have been potentially acquired internally within Ukraine, providing a degree of plausible deniability to any suspected third-party supplier".
Others, such as the ripped Copias, have been potentially acquired by horizontal transfer.
Sequences shared among algae, including A. tamarense Group IV, were potentially acquired by dinoflagellates during plastid endosymbiosis via EGT.
These genes gained on the dinoflagellate branch under DP are necessarily missing from all other species in the analysis and are potentially acquired through HGT.
Deeper understanding of the underlying photophysics could be potentially acquired through the application of global fluorescence lifetime fitting routines (69, 85).
If so, as many as 62 (90%) of these infections may have been acquired during visits to birth countries; in contrast, only ≈26% of infections of military members born in other malaria-endemic countries were potentially acquired in the respective birth countries.
The Aquificae contain a significant fraction of genes that were potentially acquired from or donated to other thermophilic lineages, establishing a plausible connection between the similarity in lifestyle of evolutionarily distant organisms and the apparent rate of LGT (Aravind et al. 1998; Nelson et al. 1999).
For instance, SIGI-HMM [ 38] identifies regions of codon usage dissimilar from comparator species and IslandPath-DIMOB [ 39] examines query sequence for the presence of flanking repeats, mobility genes, nearby tRNAs, and atypical dinucleotide sequence to identify genomic regions that were potentially acquired by horizontal transfer.
While there were numerous regions that exceeded the threshold for being potentially horizontally acquired (Additional file 4), one region, present in at least seven of the strains, had a very high probability of resulting from HGT,.
In other words, it was potentially costing more to acquire new customers than the startup could ever make back, at least in the short term.
