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 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

Chapter 15 Molecular Mechanisms of Fungal Adaptive Evolution