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Lateral DNA transfer : mechanisms and consequences

Title
Lateral DNA transfer : mechanisms and consequences / Frederic Bushman.
Author
Bushman, Frederic.
Publication
Cold Spring Harbor, NY : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Description
xiv, 448 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Subject
  • Mobile genetic elements
  • Transposons
  • Transfection
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. DNA and Lateral Transfer -- 3. Conjugation, Transposition, and Antibiotic Resistance -- 4. Phage Transduction and Bacterial Pathogenesis -- 5. Microbial Genomes and DNA Exchange -- 6. Gene Transfer by Retroviruses -- 7. Lateral DNA Transfer and the AIDS Epidemic -- 8. Genes Floating on a Sea of Retrotransposons -- 9. The DNA Transposons of Eukaryotes: Mariners Sailing to Survive? -- 10. Lateral Transfer in Eukaryotic Genomes: Fluidity in the Human Blueprint -- 11. A Transposon Progenitor of the Vertebrate Immune System -- 12. DNA Transfer Among the Domains of Life -- 13. Controlling Mobile Element Activity -- 14. Lateral DNA Transfer: Themes and Evolutionary Implications.
ISBN
  • 0879696036 (hbk.)
  • 0879696214 (pbk.)
LCCN
2001042431
OCLC
  • 47283049
  • ocm47283049
  • SCSB-4323593
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Columbia University Libraries