Horizontal Gene Transfer: Breaking Borders Between Living Kingdoms

Section I: Horizontal gene transfer among bacteria and bacteriophages

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T.G. Villa, L. Feijoo , A. Sánchez-Pérez, J.L. Rama and C. Sieiro

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Alternative ways to exchange DNA: unconventional conjugation among bacteria  

Alba Blesa& José Berenguer

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Horizontal gene transfer between bacteriophages and bacteria: Antibiotic resistances and toxin production

T.G. Villa, L. Feijoo, J. L Rama, A. Sánchez-Pérezand M. Viñas

4.       Genomic islands and the evolution of multidrug-resistant bacteria Mario Juhas

5.       Horizontal gene transfer and genome evolution in the phylum Actinobacteria - Cooper J. Park, Joshua T. Smith, Cheryl P. Andam

6.       Photobacterium damselae: How horizontal gene transfer shaped two different pathogenic lifestyles in a marine bacterium Carlos R. Osorio

Section II: Horizontal gene transfer between bacteria and animals, plants, amoeba and fungi

7.       Horizontal gene transfer in Metazoa: Examples and Methods

Yuki Yoshida, Reuben W Nowell , Kazuharu Arakawa, Mark Blaxter

8.       Horizontal gene transfer between Wolbachia and animals- Trinidad de Miguel, Oude Zhu and Tomás G. Villa

9.       Horizontal gene transfer in obligate parasites

J.M. Ageitos, M. Viñas and T.G. Villa

10.   Association between Horizontal gene transfer and Adaptation of gastric human pathogen Helicobacter pylori to host Nageswara Rao Reddy Neelapu

11.   The  Rhizobiaceae bacteria transferring genes to higher plants Martha-Helena Ramírez-Bahena, Alvaro Peix, Encarna Velázquez

12.   Role of horizontal gene transfer in evolution of plant genome Nageswara Rao Reddy Neelapu, Titash Dutta and ChallaSurekha

13.   Fungal horizontal gene transfer: a history beyond the Phylogenetic Kingdoms.  C. Barreiro, S. Gutiérrez, and E. R. Olivera               

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 Transfer of secondary metabolite gene clusters: assembly and reorganization ofthe b-lactam gene cluster from bacteria to fungi and arthropods.

Martín, J.F. and Liras, P.

15.   Horizontal gene transfer Among Neisseria species and humans S. Sánchez, T. de Miguel¹, T.G. Villa, A.R. Gorringe and I. M. Feavers

16.   Implications of Lateral or Horizontal Gene Transfer from Bacteria to the Human Gastro-Intestinal System for Cancer Development and Treatment A.G. Abril, P.G. Lanzi and V. Notario

17.   Role of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Cancer Progression A. Abril and V. Notario