Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. THE HUMAN ORAL MICROBIOME -- 1. Interspecies Interactions Promote Multispecies Communities -- 2. The Oral Microbiome -- II. INITIAL COLONIZERS -- 3. Genomes of Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis, and Streptococcus infantis -- 4. Biological Implications of the Streptococcus sanguinis Genome -- 5. Actinomyces oris Fimbriae: an Adhesive Principle in Bacterial Biofilms and Tissue Tropism -- 6. Insights into Genus Veillonella in the Genomics Era -- III. CROSSROADS BETWEEN HEALTH AND DISEASE -- 7. Fusobacteria as a Bridge between Health and Disease: a Metatranscriptomic Approach -- 8. The Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans Genome: Diversity of Pathogenic Potential -- 9. Porphyromonas gingivalis: the Role of Surface Structures in Virulence and Biofilm Development -- 10. Genome Functions of Tannerella forsythia in Bacterial Communities -- 11. Treponomics: Treponema denticola Genome and Functions -- 12. Candida albicans Colonization and Community Development -- 13. Functional Genomics of Streptococcus mutans -- IV. INTERACTIONS WITH HOST CELLS -- 14. Interactions of Porphyromonas gingivalis with Human Gingival Epithelium -- 15. Fusobacterium nucleatum Interaction with Host Cells -- V. SIGNALS -- 16. Competence-Stimulating Peptides in Oral Bacterial Signaling: Possible Implications in a Community Life -- 17. Autoinducer-2-Regulated Genes in Streptococcus mutans and Impact on Oral Bacterial Communities -- 18. Alternative Autoinducer-2 Quorum-Sensing Response Circuits: Impact on Microbial Community Development -- VI. MULTISPECIES COMMUNITY ANALYSIS -- 19. Cell-Cell Contact-Induced Gene Regulation in Streptococcus gordonii-Actinomyces oris Communities -- 20. Metabolite Sensing in a Model Polymicrobial Community.

21. Heterotypic Streptococcus gordonii-Porphyromonas gingivalis Communities: Formation, Gene Regulation, and Development -- 22. Antagonistic, Synergistic, and Counteroffensive Strategies for Streptococcal Interspecies Interactions -- 23. Role for Autoinducer-2 in the Development of Commensal Streptococcal Biofilms -- 24. The Streptococcus-Veillonella Community: How Genome Sequencing Aids Our Understanding of Interspecies Interaction -- 25. Spatiotemporal Organization of Multispecies Communities in the Human Oral Microbiome -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.