Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. John Roth's Paths and Pathways -- 2. Giving a Seminar: Suggestions for Graduate Students -- 3. Phage and Bacterial Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- 4. Reflections of a Beer Auxotroph -- II. GENE EXPRESSION AND GENETIC REGULATION -- 5. The Biotin Operon of Escherichia coli -- 6. Why Galactose? The Early Curiosities and the Consequences -- 7. Control of Gene Expression by Compartmentalization: the put Operon -- 8. Genetics of the Heme Pathway and Its Regulation -- 9. Regulation of NAD(P) Metabolism in Salmonella -- 10. Ethanolamine Utilization in Salmonella -- 11. Fishing for Fluke: the Genetics of Flk and the Flagellar Type 3 Secretion Specificity Switch -- III. tRNA AND SUPPRESSORS -- 12. Souvenirs from My Genetic Initiation -- 13. Complementary Studies in the Histidine Operon and on Frameshifting: a Compliment to What Roth Has Wrought -- 14. Adventures with Frameshift Suppressor tRNAs -- IV. PHYSIOLOGY AND METABOLISM -- 15. Microbial Channels: Forbidden Fruit from Missense Rather than Nonsense -- 16. Of Bacteria and Bile -- 17. Swarming Adventures -- 18. Using Genetic Approaches To Delineate the Pathway of Contact-Dependent Growth Inhibition -- 19. Covert Operations: the Adaptable Plan of Attack Deployed by Pathogenic Bacteria -- 20. Phenotypic Variation and Gene Regulation in the Pathogenesis of Salmonella Infection -- V. GENES, CHROMOSOMES, AND REARRANGEMENTS -- 21. DNA Methylation and Mismatch Repair -- 22. Salmonella Genetics -- 23. Finding Inversions -- 24. Barriers to the Formation of Inversion Rearrangements in Salmonella -- 25. Adventures with Mutation and Selection in Beehive and Cow Country -- VI. GENOMES AND EVOLUTION -- 26. From Genetics to Genomics -- 27. Baltimore and Beyond: from Gene Action to the Postgenomic Era.

28. Three Histories of Competence and Transformation -- 29. A Plethora of Putative Phages and Prophages -- 30. Impact of Horizontal Genetic Transfer on the Evolution of Bacterial Genomes -- 31. Germ Line DNA Parasites That Have Converged on an Altruistic Somatic Excision Strategy -- 32. Recombineering: Advanced-Advanced Bacterial Genetics -- VII. Epilogue -- 33. Predicting the Future: a Fish Story -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.