Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- I. CELL-CELL SIGNALING DURING DEVELOPMENT AND DNA EXCHANGE -- 1. Intercompartmental Signal Transduction during Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis -- 2. Extracellular Peptide Signaling and Quorum Responses in Development, Self-Recognition, and Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacillus subtilis -- 3. New Insights into Pheromone Control and Response in Enterococcus faecalis pCF10 -- 4. C-Signal Control of Aggregation and Sporulation -- 5. The Dif Chemosensory System Is Required for S Motility, Biofilm Formation, Chemotaxis, and Development in Myxococcus xanthus -- 6. Heterocyst Development and Pattern Formation -- 7. Diverse Cell-Cell Signaling Molecules Control Formation of Aerial Hyphae and Secondary Metabolism in Streptomycetes -- 8. Metabolites as Intercellular Signals for Regulation of Community-Level Traits -- II. CELL-CELL SIGNALING IN MUTUALISTIC AND PATHOGENIC ASSOCIATIONS WITH HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND PLANTS -- 9. LuxR-Type Proteins in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing: Distinct Mechanisms with Global Implications -- 10. Quorum Sensing in Vibrio cholerae Pathogenesis -- 11. Signal Integration and Virulence Gene Regulation in Staphylococcus aureus -- 12. Quorum Sensing in the Soft-Rot Erwinias -- 13. Role of Quorum-Sensing Regulation in Pathogenesis of Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii -- 14. Cell-to-Cell Communication in Rhizobia: Quorum Sensing and Plant Signaling -- 15. Quorum Signaling and Symbiosis in the Marine Luminous Bacterium Vibrio fischeri -- 16. Acylated Homoserine Lactone Signaling in Marine Bacterial Systems -- III. PRODUCTION, DETECTION, AND QUENCHING OF CHEMICAL SIGNALS -- 17. Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Biosynthesis: Structure and Mechanism -- 18. Cell-Cell Signaling within Crown Gall Tumors -- 19. A New Look at Secondary Metabolites.

20. Signal Integration in the Vibrio harveyi and Vibrio cholerae Quorum-Sensing Circuits -- 21. Signal Trafficking with Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles -- 22. Cooperative Regulation of Competence Development in Streptococcus pneumoniae: Cell-to-Cell Signaling via a Peptide Pheromone and an Alternative Sigma Factor -- 23. The A Factor Regulatory Cascade That Triggers Secondary Metabolism and Morphological Differentiation in Streptomyces -- 24. Quorum Quenching: Impact and Mechanisms -- 25. Quorum-Sensing Inhibition -- IV. EUKARYOTIC QUORUM SENSING AND INTERACTIONS WITH QUORUM-SENSING BACTERIA -- 26. Interdomain Cross Talk -- 27. Intercellular Signaling by Rhomboids in Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes -- 28. Quorum Sensing in Fungi -- 29. Quorum Sensing in Rotifers -- 30. "Quorum Sensing" in Honeybees: Pheromone Regulation of Division of Labor -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.