Articles on ethical issues in genetics are preceded by an asterisk.

Birge, E. A. 2006. Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genetics, 5th ed. New York: Springer.

An excellent textbook on the genetics of bacteria and bacteriophages.

Chen, I., P. J. Christie, and D. Dubnau. 2005. The ins and outs of DNA transfer in bacteria. Science 310:1456–1460.

A detailed and somewhat technical review of the molecular machinery for transformation and conjugation in bacteria.

Dale, J. W., and S. F. Park. 2010. Molecular Genetics of Bacteria, 5th ed. New York: Wiley.

A concise summary of basic and molecular genetics of bacteria and bacteriophages.

Davies, J. 1994. Inactivation of antibiotics and the dissemination of resistance genes. Science 264:375–382.

Reviews antibiotic resistance in bacteria, with particular emphasis on the physiology and genetics of resistance.

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Fraser, C. M., J. A. Eisen, and S. L. Salzberg. 2000. Microbial genome sequencing. Nature 406:799–803.

A short review of DNA sequencing of bacterial genomes.

Garten, R. J., C. T. Davis, C. A. Russell, et al. 2009. Antigenic and genetic characteristics of swine-origin 2009 A(H1N1) influenza viruses circulating in humans. Science 325:197–201.

Research on the genetic characteristics of H1N1 influenza.

Heeney, J. L., A. G. Dalgleish, and R. A. Weiss. 2006. Origins of HIV and the evolution of resistance to AIDS. Science 313:462–466.

An excellent review of the evolutionary origins of HIV and of genetic factors in humans that affect infection and disease progression.

Hershey, A. D., and R. Rotman. 1942. Genetic recombination between host-range and plaque-type mutants of bacteriophage in single bacterial cells. Genetics 34:44–71.

Hershey and Rotman’s original report on mapping experiments with phages.

Ippen-Ihler, K. A., and E. G. Minkley, Jr. 1986. The conjugation system of F, the fertility factor of Escherichia coli. Annual Review of Genetics 20:593–624.

A detailed review of the F factor.

Lederberg, J., and E. L. Tatum. 1946. Gene recombination in Escherichia coli. Nature 158:558.

One of the original descriptions of Lederberg and Tatum’s discovery of gene transfer in bacteria. A slightly different set of experiments showing the same result were published in 1946 in Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 11:113–114.

Miller, R. V. 1998. Bacterial gene swapping in nature. Scientific American 278(1): 66–71.

A discussion of the importance of gene transfer by conjugation, transformation, and transduction in nature.

Ochman, H., J. G. Lawrence, and E. A. Groisman. 2000. Lateral gene transfer and the nature of bacterial innovation. Nature 405:299–304.

A review of the role of horizontal gene transfer in bacterial evolution.

Pace, N. R. 1997. A molecular view of microbial diversity and the biosphere. Science 276:734–740.

A good review of the diversity and classification of bacteria based on DNA sequence data.

Papke, R. T., and J. P. Gogarten. 2012. How bacteria lineages emerge. Science 336:45–46.

A brief review of recent research on bacterial speciation.

Roesch, L. F., R. R. Fulthorpe, A. Riva, et al. 2007. Pyrosequencing enumerates and contrasts soil microbial diversity. ISME Journal 1:283–290.

Reports a study that determined the number of bacterial species in a gram of soil from four localities.

Scientific American. 1998. Volume 279, issue 1.

This issue contains a special report with a number of articles on HIV and AIDS.

Smith, G. D., D. Vijaykrishna, J. Bahl, et al. 2009. Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic. Nature 459:1122–1125.

Research on the origin of the swine H1N1 influenza A strain.

Snyder, L. and W. Champness. 2007. Molecular Genetics of Bacteria, 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: ASM Press.

A textbook on the molecular aspects of genetics in bacteria.

Steinhauer, D. A., and J. J. Skehel. 2002. Genetics of influenza viruses. Annual Review of Genetics 36:305–332.

A review of the genetics and evolution of influenza virus.

Trifonov, V., H. Kiabanian, and R. Rabadan. 2009. Geographic dependence, surveillance, and origins of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus. New England Journal of Medicine 361:115–119.

Information on the novel H1N1 influenza virus (commonly called swine flu virus) that appeared in 2009.

Tyson, G. W., J. Chapman, P. Hugenholtz, et al. 2004. Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment. Nature 428:37–43.

Describes the use of direct DNA sequencing to reconstruct the genomes of bacteria from natural microbial communities.

Walsh, C. 2000. Molecular mechanisms that confer antibacterial drug resistance. Nature 406:775–781.

A very good review of how antibiotic resistance develops and how antibiotics that are less likely to be resisted by bacteria can be developed.

Wollman, E. L., F. Jacob, and W. Hayes. 1962. Conjugation and genetic recombination in Escherichia coli K-12. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 21:141–162.

Original work on the use of interrupted conjugation to map genes in E. coli.