Chapter
Outline: Phylogenomic Networks of Microbial
Genome Evolution
Author(s): Tal
Dagan (PhD),* Ovidiu Popa (Dipl), Thorsten Klösges (Dipl), Giddy Landan
(PhD)
Chapter
no.: _________
*Genomic Microbiology
Group, Institute of Microbiology
Christian-Albrechts-University
Kiel
ZMB, Am Botanischen Garten
11
24118 Kiel, Germany
Tel: +49 431 880 5712
Fax: +49 431 880 5747
e-mail: tdagan@ifam.uni-kiel.de
Proposed
topics
1. Microbial Evolution by
Lateral Gene Transfer
1.1 Transformation
1.2 Conjugation
1.3 Cytoplasmic bridges
and nanotubes
1.4 Transduction
1.5 Gene transfer agents
(GTA)
1.6 Outer membrane
vesicles
2 Microbial Phylogenomics
2.1 Networks
2.2 Phylogenetic networks
2.3 Phylogenomic networks
of shared genes
2.4 Phylogenomic LGT
networks from shared genes
2.5 Phylogenomic LGT
networks from trees
2.6 Structural properties
of phylogenomic networks
Chapter
Highlights
The following concepts
will be conveyed in this chapter:
1. Mechanisms for lateral
gene transfer during microbial evolution
2. Microbial phylogeny
3. Phylogenetic networks
4. Constructing and analyzing phylogenomic networks
