Microbial Evolution: Gene Establishment, Survival and Exchange Book

I	Intracellular mechanisms for generating diversity	1
1	Mutagenesis and DNA repair : the consequences of error and mechanisms for remaining the same	3
2	RecA-dependent mechanisms for the generation of genetic diversity	21
3	Nonhomologous recombination	36
4	Gene duplication and gene loading	67
5	Multiple chromosomes	82
6	Generating intracellular processes	102
II	Intercellular mechanisms for gene movement	109
7	Bacterial conjugation : cell-cell contact-dependent horizontal gene spread	111
8	Conjugative and mobilizable transposons	125
9	Bacteriophage-mediated transduction : an engine for change and evolution	144
10	Transformation	158
11	Horizontal gene transfer and the real world	173
III	Mechanisms for gene establishment and survival	179
12	Stationary-phase-induced mutagenesis : is directed mutagenesis alive and well within neo-Darwinian theory?	181
13	Temporal segregation : succession in biofilms	192
14	Spatial segregation : the deep subsurface story	214
15	Are you out there? : intercellular signaling in the microbial world	231
16	Gene associations in bacterial pathogenesis : pathogenicity islands and genomic deletions	249
17	Strategic in antagonistic and cooperative interactions	275
18	Why are genes lost? : why do genes persist?	290
IV	Mechanisms for detecting genomic diversity	295
19	Horizontal transfer, genomic diversity, and genomic differentiation	297
20	Horizontal gene transfer and prokaryotic genome evolution	319
21	What makes a bacterial species? : when molecular sequence data are used, is rRNA enough?	339
22	Can we understand bacterial phylogeny, and does it make any difference anyway?	357