Evolution of Microbial Pathogens

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Table of Contents Part I. General Concepts of Microbial Evolution 1. Part I Overview, John J. Mekalanos 2. Studying Evolution Using Genome Sequence Data, Jeffrey G. Lawrence 3. Population Dynamics of Bacterial Pathogens, Martin C. J. Maiden and Rachel Urwin 4. The Study of Microbial Adaptation by Long-Term Experimental Evolution, Vaughn S. Cooper 5. The Contribution of Pathogenicity Islands to the Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens, Bianca Hochhut, Ulrich Dobrindt, and Jorg Hacker 6. Black Holes and Antivirulence Genes: Selection for Gene Loss as Part of the Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens, William A. Day and Anthony T. Maurelli Part II. Environment and the Evolution of Microbial Pathogens 7. Part II Overview, Roberto Kolter and Deborah A. Hogan 8. Evolution of Pathogens in Soil, Rachel Muir and Man-Wah Tan 9. Experimental Models of Symbiotic Host-Microbial Relationships: Understanding the Underpinnings of Beneficence and the Origins of Pathogenesis, Margaret J. McFall-Ngai and Jeffrey I. Gordon 10. The Evolution of Bacterial Toxins, O. Colin Stine and James P. Nataro 11. Function, Evolution, and Classification of Macromolecular Transport Systems, Paul J. Planet, David H. Figurski, and Rob DeSalle 12. The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance, Dean Rowe-Magnus and Didier Mazel Part III. Evolution of Selected Pathogenic Species and Mechanisms 13. Part III Overview, James B. Kaper 14. Group A Streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus: Evolution, Reemergence, and Strain Diversification, Sean D. Reid, J. Ross Fitzgerald, Stephen B. Beres, Nicole M. Green, and James M. Musser 15. Evolution of Enteric Pathogens, Ruiting Lan and Peter R. Reeves 16. Mycobacterial Evolution: Insights from Genomics and Population Genetics, Alexander S. Pym and Peter M. Small 17. The Evolution of Human Fungal Pathogens, Judith N. Steenbergen and A. Casadevall