Table of Contents

1.  Introduction to Bacterial Genomics, Mark J. Pallen

2.  Understanding the Model and the Menace: a Postgenomic View of Escherichia coli, Roy R. Chaudhuri and Gavin H. Thomas

3.  The Mycobacteria: a Postgenomic View, Marien de Jonge, Timothy P. Stinear, Stewart T. Cole, and Roland Brosch

4.  Neisseria: a Postgenomic View, Lori A. S. Snyder, Philip W. Jordan, and Nigel J. Saunders

5.  The Staphylococci: a Postgenomic View, Jodi A. Lindsay and Matthew T. G. Holden

6.  Comparative Pathogenomics of Spirochetes, George M. Weinstock, David Smajs, Timothy Palzkill, and Steven J. Norris

7.  Campylobacter Pathogenomics: Genomes and Beyond, Derrick E. Fouts, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, and Karen E. Nelson

8.  Genomic Signatures of Intracellularity: Evolutionary Patterns and Paces in Bacterial Mutualists and Parasites, Jennifer J. Wernegreen

9.  Modeling Microbial Virulence in a Genomic Era: Impact of Shared Genomic Tools and Datasets, Daniel G. Lee, Nicole T. Liberati, Jonathan M. Urbach, Gang Wu, and Frederick M. Ausubel

10.  Pathogenomics of Bacterial Biothreat Agents, Timothy D. Read and Brendan Thomason

12.  What Has Genomics Taught Us about Gram-Positive Protein Secretion and Targeting? Olaf Schneewind and Dominique Missiakas

13.  What Has Genomics Taught Us about Bacterial Cell Wall Biosynthesis? Lynn G. Dover

14.  What Genomics Has Taught Us about Intracellular Pathogens: the Example of Listeria monocytogenes, Pascale Cossart and Carmen Buchrieser

15.  Genomic Analysis of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria, Gail M. Preston, David S. Guttman, and Ian Toth

16.  Photorhabdus: Genomics of a Pathogen and Symbiont, Richard H. French-Constant, Andrea Dowling, Michelle Hares, Guowei Yang, and Nicholas Waterfield