Microbial evolution : gene establishment, survival, and exchange - Miller, Robert V. (Robert Verne), 1945-; Day, Martin J. (Washington, D.C. : ASM, 2004)
Spatial segregation: the deep subsurface story / David L. Balkwill -- Are you out there? intercellular signaling in the microbial world / Mike Manefield, Sara L. Turner, Andrew K. Lilley & Mark J. Bailey -- Gene associations in bacterial pathogenesis: the pathogenisity island / Eshwar Mahenthiralingam -- Strategies in antagonistic and co-operative interactions / Angela E. Douglas -- Why are genes lost? why do genes persist? / Martin J. Day & Robert V. Miller -- Horizontal transfer, genomic diversity, and genomic differentiation / Robert Milkman -- Horizontal gene transfer and prokaryotic genome evolution / King Jordan & Eugene V. Koonin -- What makes a bacterial species? when using molecular sequence data, is rRNA enough? / Lorraine G. van Waasbergen -- Can we understand bacterial phylogeny and does it make any difference anyway? / Robert V. Miller & Martin J. Day.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Microorganisms -- Evolution