Table of contents
September 2005 Vol 3 No 9
In This Issue
p663 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1259
Research Highlights
Fungal biology: To mate or not to mate?
p665 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1243
Virology: Henipavirus receptor identified
p666 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1257
Horizontal gene transfer: Analysing incompatibility — Wolbachia on the couch
p667 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1242
Horizontal gene transfer: Coordinated uptake
p667 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1256
Biogeochemistry: What lives beneath?
p668 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1255
Horizontal gene transfer: A gift from afar...
p668 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1260
Virology: Fatal alliance
p669 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1241
In brief
Techniques and applications | Symbiosis | Virology
p669 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1258
News and Analysis
Genome watch
A feast of protozoan genomes
p670 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1237
Disease watch
Avian influenza latest | Tularaemia on the Vineyard | Cholera vaccine latest | UK science funding | RNAi reveals essential factors | Monkeypox mystery solved | SFV jumps species barrier | Virtual vaccine centre for HIV/AIDS | Experimental TB drug trials | under suspicion in China | Circumcision cuts HIV infection | Outbreak news
p672 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1238
Foreword
Horizontal gene transfer: perspectives at a crossroads of scientific disciplines
p675 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1253
Focus on: Horizontal gene transfer
Reviews
Horizontal gene transfer, genome innovation and evolution
J. Peter Gogarten and Jeffrey P. Townsend
p679 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1204
Mobile DNA in obligate intracellular bacteria
Seth R. Bordenstein and William S. Reznikoff
p688 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1233
Studying plasmid horizontal transfer in situ: a critical review
Søren J. Sørensen, Mark Bailey, Lars H. Hansen, Niels Kroer and Stefan Wuertz
p700 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1232
Mechanisms of, and Barriers to, Horizontal Gene Transfer between Bacteria
Christopher M. Thomas and Kaare M. Nielsen
p711 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1234
Mobile genetic elements: the agents of open source evolution
Laura S. Frost, Raphael Leplae, Anne O. Summers and Ariane Toussaint
p722 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1235
Perspectives
Opinion
Re-evaluating prokaryotic species
Dirk Gevers, Frederick M. Cohan, Jeffrey G. Lawrence, Brian G. Spratt, Tom Coenye, Edward J. Feil, Erko Stackebrandt, Yves Van de Peer, Peter Vandamme, Fabiano L. Thompson and Jean Swings
p733 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1236
Perspectives
Predation on prokaryotes in the water column and its ecological implications
Jakob Pernthaler
p739 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1252
