Roberto Kolter did his academic warning at Carnegie-Mellon University, UC San Diego, and Stanford. Since 1983 he has been a faculty member of Harvard Medical School. A fanatic of food and wine, he enjoys burning those calories off in early morning runs along the Charles River in Boston. Stanley Maloy obtained his Ph.D. at the University of California at Irvine. He went on to do postdoctoral research at the University of Utah. He was on the faculty at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign for many years, and moved to San Diego State University in 2002. His favorite activity is thinking about science, but he also enjoys traveling and soaking his head in the ocean.
Contributors
p. ix
Preface
p. xiii
Introduction Darwin and Microbiology
p. 1
Evolution in Action: A 50,000-Generation Salute to Charles Darwin
p. 9
Minimal Genomes and Reducible Complexity
p. 17
Lady Lumps's Mouthguard
p. 25
Trying To Make Sense of the Microbial Census
p. 31
The View from Below
p. 37
Running Wild with Antibiotics
p. 43
Antibiotic Resistance
p. 49
Bacteria Battling for Survival
p. 59
Phage: An Important Evolutionary Force Darwin Never Knew
p. 65
The Struggle for Existence: Mutualism
p. 71
The Secret Social Lives of Microorganisms
p. 77
Microbes and Microevolution
p. 85
Unnecessary Baggage
p. 93
Bacterial Adaptation: Built-in Responses and Random Variations
p. 99
The Impact of Differential Regulation on Bacterial Speciation
p. 109
An Accidental Evolutionary Biologist: GASP, Long-Term Survival, and Evolution
p. 115
How Bacteria Revealed Darwin's Mistake (and Got Me To Read On the Origin of Species)
p. 123
The Role of Conjugation in the Evolution of Bacteria
p. 133
Do Bacteria Have Sex?
p. 139
Better than Sex
p. 145
Darwin in My Lab: Mutation, Recombination, and Speciation
p. 151
Sexual Difficulties
p. 159
Unveiling Prochlorococcus: The Life and Times of the Ocean's Smallest Photosynthetic Cell
p. 165
Deciphering the Language of Diplomacy: Give and Take in the Study of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis
p. 173
The Tangled Banks of Ants and Microbes
p. 181
Microbial Symbiosis and Evolution
p. 191
Coevolution of Helicobacter pylori and Humans
p. 197
The Library of Maynard-Smith: My Search for Meaning in the Protein Universe
p. 203
In Pursuit of Billion-Year-Old Rosetta Stones
p. 209
The Deep History of Life
p. 217
A Glimpse into Microevolution in Nature: Adaptation and Speciation of Bacillus simplex from "Evolution Canyon"
p. 225
On the Origin of Bacterial Pathogenic Species by Means of Natural Selection: A Tale of Coevolution
p. 233
The Evolution of Diversity and the Emergence of Rules Governing Phenotypic Evolution
p. 241
The Christmas Fungus on Christmas Island
p. 251
A New Age of Naturalists
p. 255
The Ship That Led to Shape
p. 263
Postphylogenetics
p. 269
Irreducible Complexity? Not!
p. 275
Many Challenges to Classifying Microbial Species
p. 281
Index
p. 287
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