Horizontal gene transfer /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1998. |
| Description: | xxiii, 474 p. : ill., ports. 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4216765 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Michael Syvanen and Clarence I. Kado
- Pt. 1. Mechanisms of Transfer into Bacteria and Eukaryotes. 2. Looking sideways at the evolution of replicons / Jack A. Heinemann. 3. Plasmid specificity and interaction: the similarities and differences between the transfer regions of two compatible plasmids, F and R100-1 / William A. Klimke, Richard Fekete and Jan Manchak. 4. Lateral broad host range gene transfer in nature: how and how much? / Abigail A. Salyers, Andrew J. Cooper and Nadja B. Shoemaker. 5. The role of gene cassettes and integrons in the horizontal transfer of genes in Gram-negative bacteria / Ruth M. Hall. 6. Evolution of the selfish Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens promoting horizontal gene transfer / Clarence I. Kado. 7. Arabidopsis ecotypes resistant to crown gall tumorigenesis / Jaesung Nam and Stanton B. Gelvin. 8. Evidence for the ancient transfer of Ri-plasmid T-DNA genes between bacteria and plants / Corinne Frundt, Alain D. Meyer and Takanari Ichikawa. 9. Gene transfer from bacteria to mammalian cells / Patrice Courvalin, Sylvie Goussard and Catherine Grillot-Courvalin. 10. Horizontal gene transfer in the host-parasite system Absidia glauca-Parasitella parasitica / J. Wostemeyer, A. Wostemeyer and A. Burmester
- Pt. 2. Bacterial Gene Transfer in Nature. 11. Selective DNA uptake and DNA restriction as barriers to horizontal gene exchange by natural genetic transformation in Pseudomonas stutzeri JM300 / Michael G. Lorenz, Birte Meyer and Marcus Wittstock. 12. Transformation in aquatic environments / Martin Day. 13. Natural genetic transformation of bacteria in soil / Wilfried Wackernagel, Johannes Sikorski and Stephanie Blum. 14. The importance of pseudolysogeny to in situ bacteriophage-host interactions / Robert V. Miller and Steven Ripp. 15. Archeological footprints of horizontal gene transfer: mosaic cell surface proteins in Streptococcus pyogenes and S. pneumoniae / Susan K. Hollingshead, Debra Bessen and David Briles. 16. Role of horizontal transfer in bacterial evolution / Jeffrey Lawrence and John Roth. 17. Evolutionary evidence for recombination among bacteria in Nature: Escherichia coli / Roger Milkman, Diane Cryderman and Melissa McKane. 18. The lysogenic conversion genes of coliphage P2 have unusually high AT content / Richard Calendar, Sidney Yu and Heejoon Myung
- Pt. 3. Eukaryotic Mobile Elements. 19. Evidence for horizontal transfer of the P transposable element between Drosophila species / Jonathan B. Clark and Margaret G. Kidwell. 20. The mariner transposons of animals: horizontally jumping genes / Hugh M. Robertson, Felipe N. Soto-Adames and Kimberly K. O. Walden. 21. Horizontal and vertical transmission of hobo-related sequences between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans / Gail M. Simmons, Dahlia Plummer and Alex Simon. 22. The splicing of transposable elements: evolution of a nuclear defense against genomic invaders? / Michael D. Purugganan
- Pt. 4. Evidence for Ancient Transfer. 23. The case for gene transfers between very distantly related organisms / Russell F. Doolittle. 24. Fungal denitrification, a respiratory system possibly acquired by horizontal gene transfer from prokaryotes / Naoki Takaya, Michiyoshi Kobayashi and Hirofumi Shoun. 25. Cytochrome-c from Stellaria longipes and Arabidopsis thaliana was likely transferred from fungi since the radiation of terrestrial plants / Michael Syvanen. 26. Phylogenetic relationship of volvocine algae to plants and animals / Rudiger Schmitt, Klaus Stark and Stefan Fabry. 27. Horizontal gene transfer and fusing lines of descent: the Archaebacteria - a chimera? / Lorraine Olendzenski, Elena Hilario and J. Peter Gogarten. 28. Endosymbiosis and the origins of chloroplast-cytosol isoenzymes: a revision of the gene transfer corollary / William F. Martin. 29. Dating the age of the last common ancestor of all living organisms with a protein clock / Ronald M. Adkins and Wen-Hsiung Li. 30. The prokaryotic origin of eukaryotes / James A. Lake and Maria C. Rivera
- Pt. 5. Macroevolutionary Trends: Does Horizontal Gene Transfer Resolve Homoplasy? 31. Character parallelism and reticulation in the origin of angiosperms / Valentin A. Krassilov. 32. Graptolite parallel evolution and lateral gene transfer / William B. N. Berry and Hyman Hartman. 33. Larval transfer in evolution / Donald I. Williamson. 34. Analysis of animal and plant cytochrome-c sequences by probability of character compatibility / Christopher A. Meacham and Hyman Hartman.
