| | | Preface | | |
| | | Preface to the First Edition | | |
| | | Introduction | | |
| | | Contributors | | |
| Sect. 1 | | DNA Metabolism | | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | | Prokaryotic DNA Replication by William Firshein | | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | | DNA Repair Mechanisms and Mutagenesis by Ronald E. Yasbin | | 27 |
| Ch. 3 | | Gene Expression and Its Regulation by John D. Helmann | | 47 |
| Ch. 4 | | Bacteriophage Genetics by Burton S. Guttman and Elizabeth M. Kutter | | 85 |
| Ch. 5 | | Bacteriophage [lambda] and Its Relatives by Roger W. Hendrix | | 127 |
| Ch. 6 | | Single-Stranded DNA Phages by J. Eugene LeClerc | | 145 |
| Ch. 7 | | Restriction-Modification Systems by Robert M. Blumenthal and Xiaodong Cheng | | 177 |
| Ch. 8 | | Recombination by Stephen D. Levene and Kenneth E. Huffman | | 227 |
| Ch. 9 | | Molecular Applications by Thomas Geoghegan | | 243 |
| Sect. 2 | | Genetic Response | | 259 |
| Ch. 10 | | Genetics of Quorum Sensing Circuitry in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Implications for Control of Pathogenesis, Biofilm Formation, and Antibiotic/Biocide Resistance by Daniel J. Hassett and Urs A. Ochsner and Teresa de Kievit | | 261 |
| Ch. 11 | | Endospore Formation in Bacillus subtilis: An Example of Cell Differentiation by a Bacterium by Charles P. Moran, Jr. | | 273 |
| Ch. 12 | | Stress Shock by Uldis N. Streips | | 281 |
| Ch. 13 | | Genetic Tools for Dissecting Motility and Development of Myxococcus xanthus by Patricia L. Hartzell | | 289 |
| Ch. 14 | | Agrobacterium Genetics by Walt Ream | | 323 |
| Ch. 15 | | Two-Component Regulation by Kenneth W. Bayles and David F. Fujimoto | | 349 |
| Ch. 16 | | Molecular Mechanisms of Quorum Sensing by Clay Fuqua and Matthew R. Parsek | | 361 |
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