Horizontal Gene Transfer

Part 1: Horizontal gene transfer among bacteria and bacteriophages.- Chapter 1: Horizontal gene transfer in bacteria, an overview of the mechanisms involved.- Chapter 2: Alternative ways to exchange DNA: unconventional conjugation among bacteria.- Chapter 3: Horizontal gene transfer between bacteriophages and bacteria: Antibiotic resistances and toxin production.- Chapter 4: Genomic islands and the evolution of multidrug-resistant bacteria Mario Juhas.- Chapter 5: Horizontal gene transfer and genome evolution in the phylum Actinobacteria.- Chapter 6: Photobacterium damselae: How horizontal gene transfer shaped two different pathogenic lifestyles in a marine bacterium.- Part 2: Horizontal gene transfer between bacteria and animals, plants, amoeba and fungi.- chapter 7: Horizontal gene transfer in Metazoa: Examples and Methods.- Chapter 8: Horizontal gene transfer between Wolbachia and animals.- Chapter 9: Horizontal gene transfer in obligate parasites.- Chapter 10: Associationbetween Horizontal gene transfer and Adaptation of gastric human pathogen Helicobacter pylori to host.- Chapter 11: The  Rhizobiaceae bacteria transferring genes to higher plants Martha.- Chapter 12: Role of horizontal gene transfer in evolution of plant genome.- Chapter 13: Fungal horizontal gene transfer: a history beyond the Phylogenetic Kingdoms.- Chapter 14: Transfer of secondary metabolite gene clusters: assembly and reorganization ofthe b-lactam gene cluster from bacteria to fungi and arthropods.- Chapter 15: Horizontal gene transfer Among Neisseria species and humans.- Chapter 16: Implications of Lateral or Horizontal Gene Transfer from Bacteria to the Human Gastro-Intestinal System for Cancer Development and Treatment.- Chapter 17: Role of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Cancer Progression.  

Profs Tomás G. Villa and M. Viñas are full Professors of Microbiology at the Universities of Santiago of Compostela and Barcelona at the Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine, respectively. For over 30 years they have been engaged in the teaching of General Microbiology including Genetics, Physiology, and taxonomy of Bacteria and lower eukaryotes to undergraduate and graduate students and also attending a variety of postdoctoral students. They are the authors of many papers concerning original research both in prokaryotes and eukaryotes as well as of many books on Microbiology. They are regular contributors to Springer books with different topics during the last years.