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Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual Kluwer Academic Publishers2004 10.1007/1-4020-2177-1_5 Section 5 - Detection of gene transfer in the environment John?H.?Paul1 and Haydn?G.?Williams1 (1)? Department of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg Campus, 140 Seventh Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Fl 33701, USA Without Abstract Natural transformation in aquatic environments Introduction Transformation is a process in which competent cells take up DNA and incorporate it into their genome. It is one of the mechanisms by which genes may be spread through natural populations [ HYPER