Horizontal Gene Transfer (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Horizontal Gene Transfer 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Foreword 10
Preface 12
Contributors 14
SECTION I: PLASMIDS AND TRANSFER MECHANISMS IN BACTERIA 20
Chapter 1. Recent History of Trans-kingdom Conjugation 22
Chapter 2. Gene Cassettes and Integrons: Moving Single Genes 38
Chapter 3. A Corynebacterium Plasmid Composed of Elements from Throughout the Eubacteria Kingdom 48
Chapter 4. Horizontal Transfer of Naphthalene Catabolic Genes in a Toxic Waste Site 56
Chapter 5. Horizontal Transmission of Genes by Agrobacterium Species 64
Chapter 6. Horizontal Transfer of Proteins Between Species: Part of the Big Picture or Just a Genetic Vignette? 70
Chapter 7. Transformation in Aquatic Environments 82
Chapter 8. Pseudolysogeny: A Bacteriophage Strategy for Increasing Longevity in situ 100
SECTION II: MOSAIC GENES AND CHROMOSOMES 112
Chapter 9. The Dynamics of Bacterial Genomes 114
Chapter 10. Bacterial Pathogenicity Islands and Infectious Diseases 130
Chapter 11. Mosaic Proteins, Not Reinventing the Wheel 142
Chapter 12. Evolutionary Relationships Among Diverse Bacteriophages and Prophages: All The World's a Phage 152
Chapter 13. Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacteriophages 160
Chapter 14. Horizontal Transfer of Mismatch Repair Genes and the Variable Speed of Bacterial Evolution 166
SECTION III: EUKARYOTIC MOBILE ELEMENTS 176
Chapter 15. Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of P Transposable Elements 180
Chapter 16. The mariner Transposons of Animals: Horizontally Jumping Genes 192
Chapter 17. The Splicing of Transposable Elements: Evolution of a Nuclear Defense Against Genomic Invaders? 206
SECTION IV: TRANSFER MECHANISMS INVOLVING PLANTS AND MICROBES 216
Chapter 18. Gene Transfer Through Introgressive Hybridization: History, Evolutionary Significance, and Phylogenetic Consequences 218
Chapter 19. Gene Flow and Introgression from Domesticated Plants into their Wild Relatives 236
Chapter 20. Search for Horizontal Gene Transfer from Transgenic Crops to Microbes 256
Chapter 21. Gene Transfer in the Fungal Host–Parasite System Absidia glauca–Parasitella parasitica Depends on Infection 260
Chapter 22. Automatic Eukaryotic Artificial Chromosomes: Possible Creation of Bacterial Organelles in Yeast 268
Chapter 23. Bacteria as Gene Delivery Vectors for Mammalian Cells 280
SECTION V: WHOLE GENOME COMPARISONS: THE EMERGENCE OF THE EUKARYOTIC CELL 286
Chapter 24. Gene Transfers Between Distantly Related Organisms 288
Chapter 25. Horizontal Gene Transfer and its Role in the Evolution of Prokaryotes 296
Chapter 26. Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Universal Tree of Life 324
Chapter 27. Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer: A Special Case of Horizontal Gene Transfer Germane to Endosymbiosis, the Origins of Organelles and the Origins of Eukaryotes 370
Chapter 28. Dating the Age of the Last Common Ancestor of All Living Organisms with a Protein Clock 382
SECTION VI: PARALLELISMS AND MACROEVOLUTIONARY TRENDS 390
Chapter 29. Character Parallelism and Reticulation in the Origin of Angiosperms 392
Chapter 30. Temporal Patterns of Plant and Metazoan Evolution Suggest Extensive Polyphyly 402
Chapter 31. Graptolite Parallel Evolution and Lateral Gene Transfer 416
Chapter 32. Larval Transfer in Evolution 424
Chapter 33. Macroevolution, Catastrophe and Horizontal Transfer 440
Chapter 34. Horizontal Gene Transfer: A New Taxonomic Principle? 446
Index 456
Color Plate Section 465