Chapter 1 The Relevance and Challenges of Studying Microbial Evolution

Chapter 2 Mayr Versus Woese: Akaryotes and Eukaryotes

Chapter 3 The Tree of Life

Chapter 4 Multiple Clocks in the Evolution of Living Organisms

Chapter 5 Natural Strategies of Spontaneous Genetic Variation: The Driving Force of Biological Evolution

Chapter 6 The Evolution of Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Bacteria

Chapter 7 Conservation of Two-Component Signal Transduction Systems in E. coli, Salmonella, and Across 100,000 Bacteria of Various Bacterial Phyla

Chapter 8 Effects of Spatial Structure and Reduced Growth Rates on Evolution in Bacterial Populations

Chapter 9 Integrons as Adaptive Devices

Chapter 10 Experimental Evolution to Explore Adaptation of Terrestrial Bacteria to the Martian Environment

Chapter 11 The Role of Phage in the Adaptation of Bacteria to New Environmental Niches

Chapter 12 Clonally Evolving Pathogenic Bacteria

Chapter 13 A Case for the Evolution from Commensalism to Pathogenicity and Possibly Back Again: Lessons Learned from the Human-Adapted Neisseria Species

Chapter 14 Sulfur Assimilation and Trafficking in Methanogens