DNA Traffic in the Environment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nishida, Hiromi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Oshima, Taku (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Microbial ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Biodiversity.; Drug resistance.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Microbial Ecology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Drug Resistance.

This book comprehensively discusses our current understanding of the role and biological mechanisms of horizontal transfer of genetic elements in the environment, which has been important in the evolution of prokaryotes (archaea and bacteria). Horizontal transfer of genetic elements generates variat...

Table of Contents:

• Bacteria
• Functions of archaeal nucleoid proteins: archaeal silencers are still missing
• Acquired and innate immunity in prokaryote define their evolutionary story
• Mobile genetic elements
• Viruses of the archaea and evolution of life
• Overlooked "broad-host range vector particles" (VPs) in the environ
• Bacteria-virus interaction
• Plasmids and their hosts
• Bacterial transposable elements
• RNA-mediated crosstalk between bacterial host genome and foreign genetic elements
• Extracellular DNA in seawater and marine sediment
• Acquiring phenotypic diversification on genomic diversification.