"This book is a valuable source of ideas, facts and references ... I will be recommending that our library buys copies to be accessed by students ranging from enthusiastic first-year undergraduates taking my Genetics course to PhD students researching topics for a dissertation ... the text is clear with good subheadings and is easy to dip into." from Chris Thomas (University of Birmingham, UK) writing in Microbiology Today (2013) read more ...

Horizontal Gene Transfer in Microorganisms Edited by: M. Pilar Francino ISBN: 978-1-908230-10-2 Publisher: Caister Academic Press Publication Date: September 2012 Cover: hardback "a valuable source of ideas, facts and references" (Microbiol. Today)

Tags: Horizontal gene transfer | HGT | Horizontal transfer | Lateral gene transfer | Bacterial antibiotic resistance | Microbial communities | Novel infections | Opportunistic pathogens | Pangenomes | Host-adaptability systems | Plasmids | Metagenomes | Antibiotic resistance genes