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Horizontal gene transfer / edited by Michael Syvanen and Clarence I. Kado.

Contributor(s): Publication details: San Diego : Academic Press, c2002.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xvii, 445 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0126801266 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 572.877 HOR
Contents:
Foreword. - Preface. - Contributors. - Sect. I. Plasmids and Transfer Mechanisms in Bacteria. Ch. 1. Recent History of Trans-kingdom Conjugation / Gayle C. Ferguson, Jack A. Heinemann. Ch. 2. Gene Cassettes and Integrons: Moving Single Genes / Ruth M. Hall. Ch. 3. A Corynebacterium Plasmid Composed of Elements from Throughout the Eubacteria Kingdom / Andreas Tauch, Alfred Puhler. Ch. 4. Horizontal Transfer of Naphthalene Catabolic Genes in a Toxic Waste Site / Eugene L. Madsen. Ch. 5. Horizontal Transmission of Genes by Agrobacterium Species / Clarence I. Kado. Ch. 6. Horizontal Transfer of Proteins Between Species: Part of the Big Picture or Just a Genetic Vignette? / Richard J. Weld, Jack A. Heinemann. Ch. 7. Transformation in Aquatic Environments / Martin Day. Ch. 8. Pseudolysogeny: A Bacteriophage Strategy for Increasing Longevity in situ / Robert V. Miller, Steven A. Ripp. - Sect. II. Mosaic Genes and Chromosomes. Ch. 9. The Dynamics of Bacterial Genomes / Jeffrey G. Lawrence. Ch. 10 Bacterial Pathogenicity Islands and Infectious Diseases / Jay V. Solnick, Glenn M. Young. Ch. 11. Mosaic Proteins, Not Reinventing the Wheel / Susan Hollingshead. Ch. 12. Evolutionary Relationships Among Diverse Bacteriophages and Prophages: All The World's a Phage / Roger W. Hendrix, Margaret C. M. Smith, R. Neil Burns. Ch. 13 Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacteriophages / Gisela Mosig, Richard Calendar. Ch. 14 Horizontal Transfer of Mismatch Repair Genes and the Variable Speed of Bacterial Evolution / Ivan Matic, Olivier Tenaillon, Guillaume Lecointre. - Sect. III. Eukaryotic Mobile Elements. Ch. 15. Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of P Transposable Elements / Jonathan B. Clark, Joana C. Silva, Margaret G. Kidwell. Ch. 16. The mariner Transposons of Animals: Horizontally Jumping Genes / Hugh M. Robertson, Felipe N. Soto-Adames, Kimberly K. O. Walden. Ch. 17. The Splicing of Transposable Elements: Evolution of a Nuclear Defense Against Genomic Invaders? / Michael D. Puruggannan. - Sect. IV. Transfer Mechanisms Involving Plants and Microbes. Ch. 18. Gene Transfer Through Introgressive Hybridization: History, Evolutionary Significance, and Phylogenetic Consequences / Loren H. Rieseberg, Mark E. Welch. Ch. 19. Gene Flow and Introgression from Domesticated Plants into their Wild Relatives / Norman C. Ellstrand, Honor C. Prentice, James F. Hancock. Ch. 20. Search for Horizontal Gene Transfer from Transgenic Crops to Microbes / M. Syvanen. Ch. 21 Gene Transfer in the Fungal Host-Parasite System Absidia glauca - Parasitella parasitica Depends on Infection / J. Wostemeyer, A. Burmester, A. Wostemeyer. Ch. 22. Automatic Eukaryotic Artificial Chromosomes: Possible Creation of Bacterial Organelles in Yeast / George Chisholm, Lynne M. Giere, Carole I. Weaver. Ch. 23. Bacteria as Gene Delivery Vectors for Mammalian Cells / Catherine Grillot-Courvalin, Sylvie Goussard, Patrice Courvalin. - Sect. V. Whole Genome Comparisons: The Emergence of the Eukaryotic Cell. Ch. 24 Gene Transfers Between Distantly Related Organisms / Russell F. Doolittle. Ch. 25. Horizontal Gene Transfer and its Role in the Evolution of Prokaryotes / Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf. Ch. 26. Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Universal Tree of Life / James R. Brown, Michael J. Italia, Christophe Douady. Ch. 27. Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer: A Special Case of Horizontal Gene Transfer Germane to Endosymbiosis, the Origins of Organelles and the Origins of Eukaryotes / Katrin Henze, Claus Schnarrenberger, William Martin. Ch. 28. Dating the Age of the Last Common Ancestor of All Living Organisms with a Protein Clock / Ronald M. Adkins, Wen-Hsiung Li. - Sect. VI. Parallelisms and Macroevolutionary Trends. Ch. 29. Character Parallelism and Reticulation in the Origin of Angiosperms / Velentin A. Krassilov. Ch. 30. Temporal Patterns of Plant and Metazoan Evolution Suggest Extensive Polyphyly / M. Syvanen. Ch. 31. Graptolite Parallel Evolution and Lateral Gene Transfer / William B. N. Berry, Hyman Hartman. Ch. 32. Larval Transfer in Evolution / Donald I. Williamson. Ch. 33. Macroevolution, Catastrophe and Horizontal Transfer / Hyman Hartman. Ch. 34. Horizontal Gene Transfer: A New Taxonomic Principle? / Lorraine Olendzenski, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten. - Index.
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Foreword. - Preface. - Contributors. - Sect. I. Plasmids and Transfer Mechanisms in Bacteria. Ch. 1. Recent History of Trans-kingdom Conjugation / Gayle C. Ferguson, Jack A. Heinemann. Ch. 2. Gene Cassettes and Integrons: Moving Single Genes / Ruth M. Hall. Ch. 3. A Corynebacterium Plasmid Composed of Elements from Throughout the Eubacteria Kingdom / Andreas Tauch, Alfred Puhler. Ch. 4. Horizontal Transfer of Naphthalene Catabolic Genes in a Toxic Waste Site / Eugene L. Madsen. Ch. 5. Horizontal Transmission of Genes by Agrobacterium Species / Clarence I. Kado. Ch. 6. Horizontal Transfer of Proteins Between Species: Part of the Big Picture or Just a Genetic Vignette? / Richard J. Weld, Jack A. Heinemann. Ch. 7. Transformation in Aquatic Environments / Martin Day. Ch. 8. Pseudolysogeny: A Bacteriophage Strategy for Increasing Longevity in situ / Robert V. Miller, Steven A. Ripp. - Sect. II. Mosaic Genes and Chromosomes. Ch. 9. The Dynamics of Bacterial Genomes / Jeffrey G. Lawrence. Ch. 10 Bacterial Pathogenicity Islands and Infectious Diseases / Jay V. Solnick, Glenn M. Young. Ch. 11. Mosaic Proteins, Not Reinventing the Wheel / Susan Hollingshead. Ch. 12. Evolutionary Relationships Among Diverse Bacteriophages and Prophages: All The World's a Phage / Roger W. Hendrix, Margaret C. M. Smith, R. Neil Burns. Ch. 13 Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacteriophages / Gisela Mosig, Richard Calendar. Ch. 14 Horizontal Transfer of Mismatch Repair Genes and the Variable Speed of Bacterial Evolution / Ivan Matic, Olivier Tenaillon, Guillaume Lecointre. - Sect. III. Eukaryotic Mobile Elements. Ch. 15. Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of P Transposable Elements / Jonathan B. Clark, Joana C. Silva, Margaret G. Kidwell. Ch. 16. The mariner Transposons of Animals: Horizontally Jumping Genes / Hugh M. Robertson, Felipe N. Soto-Adames, Kimberly K. O. Walden. Ch. 17. The Splicing of Transposable Elements: Evolution of a Nuclear Defense Against Genomic Invaders? / Michael D. Puruggannan. - Sect. IV. Transfer Mechanisms Involving Plants and Microbes. Ch. 18. Gene Transfer Through Introgressive Hybridization: History, Evolutionary Significance, and Phylogenetic Consequences / Loren H. Rieseberg, Mark E. Welch. Ch. 19. Gene Flow and Introgression from Domesticated Plants into their Wild Relatives / Norman C. Ellstrand, Honor C. Prentice, James F. Hancock. Ch. 20. Search for Horizontal Gene Transfer from Transgenic Crops to Microbes / M. Syvanen. Ch. 21 Gene Transfer in the Fungal Host-Parasite System Absidia glauca - Parasitella parasitica Depends on Infection / J. Wostemeyer, A. Burmester, A. Wostemeyer. Ch. 22. Automatic Eukaryotic Artificial Chromosomes: Possible Creation of Bacterial Organelles in Yeast / George Chisholm, Lynne M. Giere, Carole I. Weaver. Ch. 23. Bacteria as Gene Delivery Vectors for Mammalian Cells / Catherine Grillot-Courvalin, Sylvie Goussard, Patrice Courvalin. - Sect. V. Whole Genome Comparisons: The Emergence of the Eukaryotic Cell. Ch. 24 Gene Transfers Between Distantly Related Organisms / Russell F. Doolittle. Ch. 25. Horizontal Gene Transfer and its Role in the Evolution of Prokaryotes / Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf. Ch. 26. Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Universal Tree of Life / James R. Brown, Michael J. Italia, Christophe Douady. Ch. 27. Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer: A Special Case of Horizontal Gene Transfer Germane to Endosymbiosis, the Origins of Organelles and the Origins of Eukaryotes / Katrin Henze, Claus Schnarrenberger, William Martin. Ch. 28. Dating the Age of the Last Common Ancestor of All Living Organisms with a Protein Clock / Ronald M. Adkins, Wen-Hsiung Li. - Sect. VI. Parallelisms and Macroevolutionary Trends. Ch. 29. Character Parallelism and Reticulation in the Origin of Angiosperms / Velentin A. Krassilov. Ch. 30. Temporal Patterns of Plant and Metazoan Evolution Suggest Extensive Polyphyly / M. Syvanen. Ch. 31. Graptolite Parallel Evolution and Lateral Gene Transfer / William B. N. Berry, Hyman Hartman. Ch. 32. Larval Transfer in Evolution / Donald I. Williamson. Ch. 33. Macroevolution, Catastrophe and Horizontal Transfer / Hyman Hartman. Ch. 34. Horizontal Gene Transfer: A New Taxonomic Principle? / Lorraine Olendzenski, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten. - Index.