Horizontal gene transfer /
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Imprint: | San Diego, Calif. ; London : Academic Press, c2002. |
| Description: | xvii, 445 p., [11] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4618581 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Section I. Plasmids and Transfer Mechanisms in Bacteria
- Chapter 1. Recent History of Trans-kingdom Conjugation
- Chapter 2. Gene Cassettes and Integrons: Moving Single Genes
- Chapter 3. A Corynebacterium Plasmid Composed of Elements from Throughout the Eubacteria Kingdom
- Chapter 4. Horizontal Transfer of Naphthalene Catabolic Genes in a Toxic Waste Site
- Chapter 5. Horizontal Transmission of Genes by Agrobacterium Species
- Chapter 6. Horizontal Transfer of Proteins Between Species: Part of the Big Picture or Just aGenetic Vignette?
- Chapter 7. Transformation in Aquatic Environments
- Chapter 8. Pseudolysogeny: A Bacteriophage Strategy for Increasing Longevity In Situ
- Section II. Mosaic Genes and Chromosomes
- Chapter 9. The Dynamics of Bacterial Genomes
- Chapter 10. Bacterial Pathogenicity Islands and Infectious Diseases
- Chapter 11. Mosaic Proteins, Not Reinventing the Wheel
- Chapter 12. Evolutionary Relationships Among Diverse Bacteriophages and Prophages: All The World's a Phage
- Chapter 13. Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacteriophages
- Chapter 14. Horizontal Transfer of Mismatch Repair Genes and the Variable Speed of Bacterial Evolution
- Section III. Eukaryotic Mobile Elements
- Chapter 15. Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of P Transposable Elements
- Chapter 16. The mariner Transposons of Animals: Horizontally Jumping Genes
- Chapter 17. The Splicing of Transposable Elements: Evolution of a Nuclear Defense Against Genomic Invaders?
- Section IV. Transfer Mechanisms Involving Plants and Microbes
- Chapter 18. Gene Transfer Through Introgressive Hybridization: History, Evolutionary Significance, and Phylogenetic Consequences
- Chapter 19. Gene Flow and Introgression from Domesticated Plants into their Wild Relatives
- Chapter 20. Search for Horizontal Gene Transfer from Transgenic Crops to Microbes
- Chapter 21. Gene Transfer in the Fungal Host-Parasite System Absidia glauca-Parasitella parasitica Depends on Infection
- Chapter 22. Automatic Eukaryotic Artificial Chromosomes: Possible Creation of Bacterial Organelles in Yeast
- Chapter 23. Bacteria as Gene Delivery Vectors for Mammalian Cells
- Section V. Whole Genome Comparisons: The Emergence of the Eukaryotic Cell
- Chapter 24. Gene Transfers Between Distantly Related Organisms
- Chapter 25. Horizontal Gene Transfer and its Role in the Evolution of Prokaryotes
- Chapter 26. Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Universal Tree of Life
- Chapter 27. Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer: A Special Case of Horizontal Gene Transfer Germane to Endosymbiosis, the Origins of Organelles and the Origins of Eukaryotes
- Chapter 28. Dating the Age of the Last Common Ancestor of All Living Organisms with a Protein Clock
- Section VI. Parallelisms and Macroevolutionary Trends
- Chapter 29. Character Parallelism and Reticulation in the Origin of Angiosperms
- Chapter 30. Temporal Patterns of Plant and Metazoan Evolution Suggest Extensive Polyphyly
- Chapter 31. Graptolite Parallel Evolution and Lateral Gene Transfer
- Chapter 32. Larval Transfer in Evolution
- Chapter 33. Macroevolution, Catastrophe and Horizontal Transfer
- Chapter 34. Horizontal Gene Transfer: A New Taxonomic Principle?
- Index
- A Color Plate Section Appears between Pages 110 and 111
