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Contributors | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction Darwin and Microbiology | |
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Evolution in Action: A 50,000-Generation Salute to Charles Darwin | |
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Minimal Genomes and Reducible Complexity | |
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Lady Lumps's Mouthguard | |
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Trying To Make Sense of the Microbial Census | |
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The View from Below | |
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Running Wild with Antibiotics | |
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Antibiotic Resistance | |
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Bacteria Battling for Survival | |
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Phage: An Important Evolutionary Force Darwin Never Knew | |
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The Struggle for Existence: Mutualism | |
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The Secret Social Lives of Microorganisms | |
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Microbes and Microevolution | |
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Unnecessary Baggage | |
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Bacterial Adaptation: Built-in Responses and Random Variations | |
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The Impact of Differential Regulation on Bacterial Speciation | |
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An Accidental Evolutionary Biologist: GASP, Long-Term Survival, and Evolution | |
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How Bacteria Revealed Darwin's Mistake (and Got Me To Read On the Origin of Species) | |
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The Role of Conjugation in the Evolution of Bacteria | |
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Do Bacteria Have Sex? | |
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Better than Sex | |
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Darwin in My Lab: Mutation, Recombination, and Speciation | |
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Sexual Difficulties | |
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Unveiling Prochlorococcus: The Life and Times of the Ocean's Smallest Photosynthetic Cell | |
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Deciphering the Language of Diplomacy: Give and Take in the Study of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis | |
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The Tangled Banks of Ants and Microbes | |
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Microbial Symbiosis and Evolution | |
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Coevolution of Helicobacter pylori and Humans | |
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The Library of Maynard-Smith: My Search for Meaning in the Protein Universe | |
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In Pursuit of Billion-Year-Old Rosetta Stones | |
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The Deep History of Life | |
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A Glimpse into Microevolution in Nature: Adaptation and Speciation of Bacillus simplex from "Evolution Canyon" | |
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On the Origin of Bacterial Pathogenic Species by Means of Natural Selection: A Tale of Coevolution | |
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The Evolution of Diversity and the Emergence of Rules Governing Phenotypic Evolution | |
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The Christmas Fungus on Christmas Island | |
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A New Age of Naturalists | |
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The Ship That Led to Shape | |
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Postphylogenetics | |
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Irreducible Complexity? Not! | |
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Many Challenges to Classifying Microbial Species | |
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Index | |