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1、TMMETHODSINMOLECULARBIOLOGYSeriesEditorJohnM.WalkerSchoolofLifeSciencesUniversityofHertfordshireHatfield,Hertfordshire,AL109AB,UKForothertitlespublishedinthisseries,gotowww.springer.com/series/7651TMMETHODSINMOLECULARBIOLOGYHorizontalGeneTransfer:GenomesinFluxEditedbyMariaBoekelsGogarten,Johann
2、PeterGogartenUniversityofConnecticut,Storrs,CT,USAandLorraineOlendzenskiSt.LawrenceUniversity,Canton,NY,USAEditorsMariaBoekelsGogartenJohannPeterGogarten968WarrenvilleRoadUniversityofConnecticutMansfieldCenterCT06250Dept.Molecular&CellBiologyUSA91NorthEaglevilleRd.mgogarten@gmail.comStorrsCT062
3、69-3125USAgogarten@uconn.eduLorraineOlendzenskiSt.LawrenceUniversityBiologyDepartment23RomodaDriveCantonNY13617USAlolendzenski@stlawu.eduISSN1064-3745e-ISSN1940-6029ISBN978-1-60327-852-2e-ISBN978-1-60327-853-9DOI10.1007/978-1-60327-853-9LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2009920326cHumanaPress,ap
4、artofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia,LLC2009Allrightsreserved.Thisworkmaynotbetranslatedorcopiedinwholeorinpartwithoutthewrittenpermissionofthepublisher(HumanaPress,c/oSpringerScience+BusinessMedia,LLC,233SpringStreet,NewYork,NY10013,USA),exceptforbriefexcerptsinconnectionwithreviewsorscholarlya
5、nalysis.Useinconnectionwithanyformofinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdevelopedisforbidden.Theuseinthispublicationoftradenames,trademarks,servicemarks,andsimilarterms,eveniftheyarenotidentifiedassuch,isnotto
6、betakenasanexpressionofopinionastowhetherornottheyaresubjecttoproprietaryrights.Coverillustration:courtesyofFordDoolittlePrintedonacid-freepaperspringer.comThisbookisdedicatedtoourfamilies–Jacob,Jan,JennyandStephanie,ANDTim,RyanandBrendanPrefaceTherecombinationofgeneticinformationhaslongbeenre
7、cognizedasanimportantpro-cessinevolution.However,genomicandmetagenomicanalyses,particularlyofprokary-oticcells,haverevealedahithertounexpectednumberofhorizontalgenetransfer(HGT)events.Divergentorganismsexchangegenesandthetraitstheyencod
