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Inspired by a 2009 colloquium on microbial evolution convened at the Galapagos Islands, Microbes and Evolution continues to celebrate Charles Darwin and his landmark book On the Origin of Species. Through this collection of 40 first-person essays written by microbiologists with a passion for evolutionary biology, you'll come to understand how their thinking and career paths in science were influenced by Darwin's seminal work.
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Explore the fundamental role of microbes in the natural history of our planet...Inspired by a 2009 colloquium on microbial evolution convened at the Galapagos Islands, Microbes and Evolution continues to celebrate Charles Darwin and his landmark book On the Origin of Species.Features 40 first-person essays written by microbiologists with a passion for evolutionary biology, whose thinking and career paths in science were influenced by Darwin's seminal work.Includes personal viewpoints on the importance of evolutionary principles in the study of a variety of aspects of life science, from taxonomy, speciation, adaptation, social structure, and symbiosis to antibiotic resistance, genetics, and genomics. This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.
Contents
Table of ContentsContributors **Preface **Introduction Darwin and Microbiology 1Roberto Kolter and Stanley MaloyChapter 1 Evolution in Action: A 50,000-Generation Salute to Charles Darwin 9Richard E. LenskiChapter 2 Minimal Genomes and Reducible Complexity 17Andres MoyaChapter 3 Lady Lumps's Mouthguard 25Jessica GreenChapter 4 Trying To Make Sense of the Microbial Census 31Mitchell L. SoginChapter 5 The View from Below 37Margaret Riley and Robert DoritChapter 6 Running Wild with Antibiotics 43Roberto KolterChapter 7 Antibiotic Resistance 49Diarmaid HughesChapter 8 Bacteria Battling for Survival 59Thomas M. SchmidtChapter 9 Phage: An Important Evolutionary Force Darwin Never Knew 65Forest RohwerChapter 10 The Struggle for Existence: Mutualism 71Paul E. TurnerChapter 11 The Secret Social Lives of Microorganisms 77Kevin R. FosterChapter 12 Microbes and Microevolution 85Evgeni SokurenkoChapter 13 Unnecessary Baggage 93Stanley Maloy and Guido MoraChapter 14 Bacterial Adaptation: Built-In Responses and Random Variations 99Josep CasadesusChapter 15 The Impact of Differential Regulation on Bacterial Speciation 109Eduardo A. GroismanChapter 16 An Accidental Evolutionary Biologist: GASP, Long-Term Survival, and Evolution 115Steven E. FinkelChapter 17 How Bacteria Revealed Darwin's Mistake (and Got Me To Read On the Origin of Species) 123John R. RothChapter 18 The Role of Conjugation in the Evolution of Bacteria 133Fernando de la CruzChapter 19 Do Bacteria Have Sex? 139Rosemary J. RedfieldChapter 20 Better than Sex 145Harald BrussowChapter 21 Darwin in My Lab: Mutation, Recombination, and Speciation 151Miroslav RadmanChapter 22 Sexual Difficulties 159Howard OchmanChapter 23 Unveiling Prochlorococcus: The Life and Times of the Ocean's Smallest Photosynthetic Cell 165Sallie W. ChisholmChapter 24 Deciphering the Language of Diplomacy: Give and Take in the Study of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis 173Margaret McFall-Ngai and Ned RubyChapter 25 The Tangled Banks of Ants and Microbes 181Cameron R. CurrieChapter 26 Microbial Symbiosis and Evolution 191Nancy A. MoranChapter 27 Coevolution of Helicobacter pylori and Humans 197Martin J. BlaserChapter 28 The Library of Maynard-Smith: My Search for Meaning in the Protein Universe 203Frances H. ArnoldChapter 29 In Pursuit of Billion-Year-Old Rosetta Stones 209Dianne K. NewmanChapter 30 The Deep History of Life 217Andrew H. KnollChapter 31 A Glimpse into Microevolution in Nature: Adaptation and Speciation of Bacillus simplex from "Evolution Canyon" 225Johannes SikorskiChapter 32 On the Origin of Bacterial Pathogenic Species by Means of Natural Selection: A Tale of Coevolution 233Philippe J. SansonettiChapter 33 The Evolution of Diversity and the Emergence of Rules Governing Phenotypic Evolution 241Paul B. RaineyChapter 34 The Christmas Fungus on Christmas Island 251Anne PringleChapter 35 A New Age of Naturalists 255Rachel A. WhitakerChapter 36 The Ship That Led to Shape 263Kevin D. YoungChapter 37 Postphylogenetics 269W. Ford DoolittleChapter 38 Irreducible Complexity? Not! 275David F. Blair and Kelly T. HughesChapter 39 Many Challenges to Classifying Microbial Species 281Stephen Giovannoni
