Part I. LGT-Driven Metabolic Innovations and Adaptations
1 Lateral Gene Transfer and the Synthesis of Thymidine ......... 3
Itay Levin, Moshe Giladi and Uri Gophna
2 Lateral Gene Transfer and the Evolution of Photosynthesis
in Eukaryotes ............................................... 15
Claudio H. Slamovits and Adrian Reyes-Prieto
3 On the Eco-Evolutionary Relationships of Fresh and Salt
Water Bacteria and the Role of Gene Transfer in Their
Adaptation .................................................. 55
David A. Walsh, Josine Lafontaine and Hans-Peter Grossart
4 Mobilized Integrons: Team Players in the Spread of
Antibiotic Resistance Genes ................................. 79
Elena Martinez, Steven Djordjevic, H.W. Stokes and Piklu
Roy Chowdhury
5 Rumen Plasmids ............................................. 105
Aya Brown Kav, Itai Benhar and Itzhak Mizrahi
Part II. The Integration of New Genes into Existing Networks
6 Lateral Genetic Transfer and Cellular Networks ............. 123
Elizabeth Skippington and Mark A. Ragan
7 The Complexity Hypothesis and Other Connectivity Barriers
to Lateral Gene Transfer ................................... 137
Ofir Cohen, Uri Gophna and Tal Pupko
8 The Effect of Codon Usage on the Success of Horizontal
Gene Transfer .............................................. 147
Tamir Tuller
Part III. Inter-Domain Gene Transfer
9 Lateral Gene Transfer in Multicellular Organisms ........... 161
Julie C. Dunning Hotopp
10 Gene Transfer and the Chimeric Nature of Eukaryotic
Genomes .................................................... 181
Jan O. Andersson
11 Interdomain Horizontal Gene Transfer Shaped the Genomes
of Legionella pneumophila and Legionella longbeachae ....... 199
Laura Gomez-Valero, Mario Neou Bonora, Simonetta Gribaldo
and Carmen Buchrieser
12 Application of a New Mapping Algorithm to Reevaluate
Evidence of Interdomain Lateral Gene Transfer in the
Genome of Thermotoga maritima .............................. 221
Pascal Lapierre, Nicholas C. Butzin and Kenneth M. Noll
Part IV. LGT, Speciation and the Tree/Web of Life
13 Gradual Speciation: Further Entangling the Tree of Life ... 243
Jeffrey G. Lawrence
14 Biased Gene Transfer Contributes to Maintaining the
Tree of Life .............................................. 263
Cheryl P. Andam and Johann Peter Gogarten
15 Speciation in the Shadow of Recombination and Lateral
Gene Transfer ............................................. 275
R. Thane Papke, Adit Naor and Uri Gophna
Index ........................................................ 291
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