Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays an important role in the evolution of life on the Earth.
This view is supported by numerous occasions of HGT that are recorded in the genomes of …

Horizontal gene transfer is an important mechanism for the evolution of microbial genomes.
Pathogenicity islands—mobile genetic elements that contribute to rapid changes in …

Chloramphenicol (Cm) and its fluorinated derivative florfenicol (Ff) represent highly potent
inhibitors of bacterial protein biosynthesis. As a consequence of the use of Cm in human …

Ralstonia solanacearum is a devastating, soil-borne plant pathogen with a global
distribution and an unusually wide host range. It is a model system for the dissection of …

Aminoglycoside antibiotics have had a major impact on our ability to treat bacterial infections
for the past half century. Whereas the interest in these versatile antibiotics continues to be …

The complete nucleotide sequence of the genome of a symbiotic bacterium Bradyrhizobium
japonicum USDA110 was determined. The genome of B. japonicum was a single circular …

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen capable of transferring a defined segment of
DNA to a host plant, generating a gall tumor. Replacing the transferred tumor-inducing …

Sequence-Evolution-Function is an introduction to the computational approaches that play a
critical role in the emerging new branch of biology known as functional genomics. The book …

After several decades of use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in weed killers such as
Roundup, in fields, forests, and gardens, the biochemical pathway of transformation of …

Referee: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Werner, FG Zellbiologie und Angewandte Botanik, Fachbereich
Biologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse, D-35032 Marburg, Germany …