Machine generated contents note: SECTION I PLASMIDS AND TRANSFER MECHANISMS IN BACTERIA -- Chapter 1 Recent History of Trans-kingdom Conjugation -- Gayle C. Ferguson and Jack A. Heinemann -- Chapter 2 Gene Cassettes and Integrons: Moving Single Genes -- Ruth M. Hall -- Chapter 3 A Corynebacterium Plasmid Composed of Elements from Throughout the -- Eubacteria Kingdom -- Andreas Tauch and Alfred Piihler -- Chapter 4 Horizontal Transfer of Naphthalene Catabolic Genes in a Toxic Waste Site -- Eugene L. Madsen -- Chapter 5 Horizontal Transmission of Genes by Agrobacterium Species -- Clarence I. Kado -- Chapter 6 Horizontal Transfer of Proteins Between Species: Part of the Big Picture or -- Just aGenetic Vignette? ' -- Richard J. Weld and Jack A. Heinemann -- Chapter 7 Transformation in Aquatic Environments -- Martin Day * : -- Chapter 8 Pseudolysogeny: A Bacteriophage Stirtegyfo6r Increasing Longevity in situ -- Robert V. Miller and Steven A. Ripp --SECTION II MOSAIC GENES AND CHROMOSOMES -- Chapter 9 The Dynamics of Bacterial Genomes -- Jeffrey G. Lawrence -- Chapter 10 Bacterial Pathogenicity Islands and Infectious Diseases -- Jay V. Solnick and Glenn M. Young -- Chapter 11 Mosaic Proteins, Not Reinventing the Wheel -- Susan Hollingshead -- Chapter 12 Evolutionary Relationships Among Diverse Bacteriophages and Prophages: -- All The World's a Phage -- Roger W. Hendrix, Margaret CM. Smith, R. Neil Burns, Michael E. Ford and -- Graham F. Hatfull -- Chapter 13 Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacteriophages -- Gisela Mosig and Richard Calendar -- Chapter 14 Horizontal Transfer of Mismatch Repair Genes and the Variable Speed of -- Bacterial Evolution -- Ivan Matic, Olivier Tenaillon, Guillaume Lecointre, Pierre Darlu, Miroslav Radman, -- Francois Taddei and Erick Denamur --SECTION III EUKARYOTIC MOBILE ELEMENTS -- Chapter 15 Evidence for Horizontal Transfer of P Transposable Elements -- Jonathan B. Clark, Joana C. Silva and Margaret G. Kidwell -- Chapter 16 The mariner Transposons of Animals: Horizontally Jumping Genes -- Hugh M. Robertson, Felipe N. Soto-Adames, Kimberly K. O. Walden, -- Rita M. P. Avancini and David J. Lampe -- Chapter 17 The Splicing of Transposable Elements: Evolution of a Nuclear Defense -- Against Genomic Invaders? -- Michael D. Purugganan --SECTION IV TRANSFER MECHANISMS INVOLVING PLANTS AND MICROBES -- Chapter 18 Gene Transfer Through Introgressive Hybridization: History, Evolutionary -- Significance, and Phylogenetic Consequences -- Loren H. Rieseberg and Mark E. Welch -- Chapter 19 Gene Flow and Introgression from Domesticated Plants into their Wild -- Relatives -- Norman C. Ellstrand, Honor C. Prentice and James F. Hancock -- Chapter 20 Search for Horizontal Gene Transfer from Transgenic Crops to Microbes -- M. Syvanen -- Chapter 21 Gene Transfer in the Fungal Host-Parasite System Absidia glauca- -- Parasitella parasitica Depends on Infection -- J. Wostemeyer, A. Burmester, A. Wostemeyer, K. Schultze and K. Voigt -- Chapter 22 Automatic Eukaryotic Artificial Chromosomes: Possible Creation of Bacterial -- Organelles in Yeast -- George Chisholm, Lynne M. Giere, Carole I. Weaver, Chin Y. Loh, Bryant E. Fong, -- Meghan E. Bowser, Nathan C. Hitzeman and Ronald A. Hitzeman -- Chapter 23 Bacteria as Gene Delivery Vectors for Mammalian Cells -- Catherine Grillot-Courvalin, Sylvie Goussard and Patrice Courvalin --SECTION V WHOLE GENOME COMPARISONS: THE EMERGENCE OF THE -- EUKARYOTIC CELL -- Chapter 24 Gene Transfers Between Distantly Related Organisms -- Russell F. Doolittle -- Chapter 25 Horizontal Gene Transfer and its Role in the Evolution of Prokaryotes -- Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf and L. Aravind -- Chapter 26 Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Universal Tree of Life -- James R. Brown, Michael J. Italia, Christophe Douady and Michael J. Stanhope -- Chapter 27 Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer: A Special Case of Horizontal Gene Transfer -- Germane to Endosymbiosis, the Origins of Organelles and the Origins of -- Eukaryotes -- Katrin Henze, Claus Schnarrenberger and William Martin -- Chapter 28 Dating the Age of the Last Common Ancestor of All Living Organisms with a -- Protein Clock -- Ronald M. Adkins and Wen-Hsiung Li --SECTION VI PARALLELISMS AND MACROEVOLUTIONARY TRENDS -- Chapter 29 Character Parallelism and Reticulation in the Origin of Angiosperms -- Valentin A. Krassilov -- Chapter 30 Temporal Patterns of Plant and Metazoan Evolution Suggest Extensive -- Polyphyly -- M. Syvanen -- Chapter 31 Graptolite Parallel Evolution and Lateral Gene Transfer -- William BN. Berry and Hyman Hartman -- Chapter 32 Larval Transfer in Evolution -- Donald I. Williamson -- Chapter 33 Macroevolution, Catastrophe and Horizontal Transfer -- Hyman Hartman -- Chapter 34 Horizontal Gene Transfer: A New Taxonomic Principle? -- Lorraine Olendzenski, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten.