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Horizontal Gene Transfer, 2nd ed. |
General description
Horizontal gene transfer is the transfer of genetic material between distinct species, a process that plays a major role in the evolution of the genome. Evidence for the transfer of genes singly and in modular groups between lower and higher organisms has been mounting. This edition has been organized to provide up-to-date coverage of important discoveries. Prominent gene transfer and genome analytical scientists detail experimental evidence for the phenomenon of horizontal gene transfer and discusses further evidence provided by the recent completion of genomic sequences from Archea, Bacteria, and Eucarya members
Table of Contents
SECTION I Plasmids and Transfer Mechanisms in Bacteria
Ch. 1 Recent History of Trans-kingdom Conjugation
Ch. 2 Gene Cassettes and Integrons: Moving Single Genes
Ch. 3 A Corynebacterium Plasmid Composed of Elements from Throughout the Eubacteria Kingdom
Ch. 4 Horizontal Trnasfer of Naphthalene Catabolic Genes in a Toxic Waste SIte
Ch. 5 Horizontal Transmission of Genes by Agrobacterium Species
Ch. 6 Horizontal Transfer of Proteins Between Species: part of the Big Picture or just a Genetic Vignette
Ch. 7 Transformation in Aquatic Environments
Ch. 8 Pseudolysogeny: A Bacteriophage Strategy for Increasing Longevity in situ
SECTION II. Mosaic Genes and Chromosomes
Ch. 9 The Dynamics of Bacterial Genomes
Ch. 10 Bacterial Pathogenicity Islands and Infectious Disease
Ch. 11 Mosaic Proteins, Not Reinventing the Wheel
Ch. 12 Evolutionary Relationships among Diverse Bacteriophages and Prophages: All the World's a Phage
Ch. 13 Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacteriophages
Ch. 14 Horizontal Transfer of Mismatch Repair Genes and the Variable Speed of Bacterial Evolution
SECTION III. Eukaryotic Mobile Elements
Ch. 15 Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of P Transposable Elements
Ch. 16 The mariner Transposons of Animals: Horizontally Jumping Genes
Ch. 17 The Splicing of Transposable Elements: Evolution of a Nuclear Defense against Genomic Invaders
SECTION IV. Transfer Mechanisms Involving Plants and Microbes
Ch. 18 Gene Transfer Through Introgressive Hybridization: History, Evolutionary Significance, and Phylogenetic consequences
Ch. 19 Gene Flow and Introgression from Domesticted Plants into their Wild Relatives
Ch. 20 Search for Horizontal Gene Transfer from Transgenic Crops to Microbes
Ch. 21 Gene Transfer in the Fungal Host-Parasite System absidia glauca-Parasitella parasitica Depends on Infection
Ch. 22 AUtomatic Eukaryotic Artificial Chromosomes: Possible Creation of Bacterial Organelles in Yeast
Ch. 23. Bacteria as Gene Delivery Vectors for Mammalian Cells
SECTION V. Whole Genome Comparisons: The Emergence of the Eukaryotic Cell
Ch. 24 Gene Transfers Between Distantly Related Organisms
Ch. 25 Horizontal Gene Transfer and its Role in the Evolution of Prokaryotes
Ch. 26 Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Univeral Tree of Life
Ch. 27 Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer: A Special Case of Horizontal Gene Transfer Germane to Endosymbiosis, the Origins of Organelles and the Origins of Eukaryotes
Ch. 28 Dating the Age of the Last Common Ancestor of all Living Organisms with a Protein Clock
SECTION VI. Parallelisms and Macroevolutionary Trends
Ch. 29 Character Parallelism and Reticulation in the Origin of Angiosperms
Ch. 30 Temporal Patterns of Plant and Metazoan Evolution Suggest Extensive Polyphyly
Ch. 31 Graptolite Parallel Evolution and Lateral Gene Transfer
Ch. 32 Larval Transfer in Evolution
Ch. 33 Macroevolution, Catastrophe and Horizontal Transfer
Ch. 34 Horizontal Gene Transfer: A New Taxonomic Principle?
Ch. 1 Recent History of Trans-kingdom Conjugation
Ch. 2 Gene Cassettes and Integrons: Moving Single Genes
Ch. 3 A Corynebacterium Plasmid Composed of Elements from Throughout the Eubacteria Kingdom
Ch. 4 Horizontal Trnasfer of Naphthalene Catabolic Genes in a Toxic Waste SIte
Ch. 5 Horizontal Transmission of Genes by Agrobacterium Species
Ch. 6 Horizontal Transfer of Proteins Between Species: part of the Big Picture or just a Genetic Vignette
Ch. 7 Transformation in Aquatic Environments
Ch. 8 Pseudolysogeny: A Bacteriophage Strategy for Increasing Longevity in situ
SECTION II. Mosaic Genes and Chromosomes
Ch. 9 The Dynamics of Bacterial Genomes
Ch. 10 Bacterial Pathogenicity Islands and Infectious Disease
Ch. 11 Mosaic Proteins, Not Reinventing the Wheel
Ch. 12 Evolutionary Relationships among Diverse Bacteriophages and Prophages: All the World's a Phage
Ch. 13 Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacteriophages
Ch. 14 Horizontal Transfer of Mismatch Repair Genes and the Variable Speed of Bacterial Evolution
SECTION III. Eukaryotic Mobile Elements
Ch. 15 Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of P Transposable Elements
Ch. 16 The mariner Transposons of Animals: Horizontally Jumping Genes
Ch. 17 The Splicing of Transposable Elements: Evolution of a Nuclear Defense against Genomic Invaders
SECTION IV. Transfer Mechanisms Involving Plants and Microbes
Ch. 18 Gene Transfer Through Introgressive Hybridization: History, Evolutionary Significance, and Phylogenetic consequences
Ch. 19 Gene Flow and Introgression from Domesticted Plants into their Wild Relatives
Ch. 20 Search for Horizontal Gene Transfer from Transgenic Crops to Microbes
Ch. 21 Gene Transfer in the Fungal Host-Parasite System absidia glauca-Parasitella parasitica Depends on Infection
Ch. 22 AUtomatic Eukaryotic Artificial Chromosomes: Possible Creation of Bacterial Organelles in Yeast
Ch. 23. Bacteria as Gene Delivery Vectors for Mammalian Cells
SECTION V. Whole Genome Comparisons: The Emergence of the Eukaryotic Cell
Ch. 24 Gene Transfers Between Distantly Related Organisms
Ch. 25 Horizontal Gene Transfer and its Role in the Evolution of Prokaryotes
Ch. 26 Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Univeral Tree of Life
Ch. 27 Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer: A Special Case of Horizontal Gene Transfer Germane to Endosymbiosis, the Origins of Organelles and the Origins of Eukaryotes
Ch. 28 Dating the Age of the Last Common Ancestor of all Living Organisms with a Protein Clock
SECTION VI. Parallelisms and Macroevolutionary Trends
Ch. 29 Character Parallelism and Reticulation in the Origin of Angiosperms
Ch. 30 Temporal Patterns of Plant and Metazoan Evolution Suggest Extensive Polyphyly
Ch. 31 Graptolite Parallel Evolution and Lateral Gene Transfer
Ch. 32 Larval Transfer in Evolution
Ch. 33 Macroevolution, Catastrophe and Horizontal Transfer
Ch. 34 Horizontal Gene Transfer: A New Taxonomic Principle?
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