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Science 22 March 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5563, pp. 2219 - 2220
DOI: 10.1126/science.1070209
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GENOME EVOLUTION:
Keeping Pace with Opportunistic DNA

A review by Margaret G. Kidwell

Lateral DNA Transfer Mechanisms and Consequences
Frederic Bushman
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2002. 464 pp. $59, £43. ISBN 0-87969-603-6. Paper, $39, £28. ISBN 0-87969-621-4.

Readers from graduate students to established researchers will find much of interest in Bushman's discussions of how lateral transfer occurs, the extent to which it happens, its implications for our understanding of biology, and its consequences for medicine.
The author is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 310 BioSciences West Building, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. E-mail: kidwell{at}azstarnet.com

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