1. Genome Structure, Stability, and Evolution.- 1. Structure and Sizes of the Genomes of the Archaea and Bacteria.- 2. Chromosomal Organization: Nucleoids, Chromosomal Folding, and DNA Topology.- 3. Prophages and Cryptic Prophages.

- 4. Insertion Sequences and Transposons.- 5. Interspersed Repetitive Sequences in Bacterial Genomes.- 6. Chi Sites and Their Consequences.- 7. Origins of Chromosome Replication.

- 8. Restriction Modification Systems: Where They Are and What They Do.- 9. Genome Ploidy.- 10. Segregation of the Bacterial Chromosome.- 11. Chromosomal Rearrangements.

- 12. Mechanism of Avoidance of 5-methylcytosine to Thymine Mutations in Bacteria.- 13. Conjugative Transposons.- 14. Phase Variation.- 15. The Dynamic Genome of Rhizobium.

- 16. Programmed DNA Rearrangements in Cyanobacteria.- 17. Evolution of the E. coli Genome.- 18. E. coli Genes: Ancestries and Map Locations.

- 19. Prokaryotic Genome-Wide Comparisons and Evolutionary Implications.- 20. Insertion Sequences and their Evolutionary Role.- 21. Multiplicity of Ribosomal RNA Operons in Prokaryotic Genomes.- 22. Genome Evolution in the Salmonellae.

- 23. Structure and Evolution of Escherichia coli Rhs Elements.- 2. Strategies for Genome Analysis.- 24. Physical Mapping and Fingerprinting of Bacterial Genomes using Rare Cutting Restriction Enzymes.- 25. One-dimensional Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis.

- 26. Two-dimensional Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis.- 27. Use of Bacteriophage Mu-P22 Hybrids for Genome Mapping.- 28. Encyclopedias of Bacterial Genomes.- 29. Localizing Genes by the Introduction of Rare Restriction Sites.

- 30. Towards a Cosmid-derived Physical Map of Synechococcus PCC Genome.- 31. Fingerprinting Bacterial Genomes Using Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms.- 32. Use of Endogenous RepeatedSequences to Fingerprint Bacterial Genomic DNA.- 33. Applications of DNA and RNA Fingerprinting by the Arbitrarily Primed Polymerase Chain Reaction.

- 34. Repetitive Sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR) DNA Fingerprinting of Bacterial Genomes.- 35. Organization of the European Bacillus subtilis Genome Sequencing Project.- 36. Sequence Features of the Genome of a Unicellular Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803.- 37.

A Minimal Gene Complement for Cellular Life and Reconstruction of Primitive Life Forms by Analysis of Complete Bacterial Genomes.- 38. Resources for the Escherichia coli Genome Project.- 39. The Mycobacterial Database MycDB and the Mycobacterial Genome Sequencing Project.- 40. Mycoplasma genitalium.- 41.

Other Mycoplasma sp.- 42. Mycoplasma capricolum Genome Project.- 43. Sequence Skimming of Chromosome II of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1T.- 44.

Sequencing the Genome of Sulfolobus solfataricus P2.- 45. MAGPIE: A Multipurpose Automated Genome Project Investigation Environment for Ongoing Sequencing Projects.- 46. Integrated Genome Informatics.- 3. Physical Maps of Bacteria and Their Methods for Construction.- 47.

Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120.- 48. Aquifex pyrophilus.- 49. Bacillus cereus/Bacillus thuringiensis.- 50. Bacillus subtilis 168.

- 51. Bordetella pertussis Strain Tohama I.- 52. Borrelia burgdorferi and the Other Lyme Disease Spirochetes.- 53. Bradyrhizobium japonicum Strain 3I1b110.- 54. Brucella melitensis 16M (ATCC 23456).

- 55. Campylobacter jejuni TGH9011 (ATCC 43431).- 56. Caulobacter crescentus CB15.- 57. Clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB.- 58. Clostridium perfringens CPN50.

- 59. Enterococcus faecalis.- 60. Escherichia coli.- 61. Haemophilus influenzae Rd.- 62. Haloferax volcanii DS2 and Halobacterium salinarium GRB.

- 63. Helicobacter pylori CH19.- 64. Lactococcus lactis subsp.lactis ILI403 and Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363.- 65. Leptospira interrogans.

- 66. Listeria monocyto genes.- 67. Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum Marburg.- 68. Mycobacterium leprae.- 69. Mycoplasma genitalium G-37 (ATCC 33530).

- 70. Myxococcus xanthus DK1622.- 71. Neisseria gonorrhoeae MS11-N198 (ATCC 49759).- 72. Planctomyces limnophilus DSM 3776T.- 73. Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia Strain ATCC and 25416; Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strain C and PAO (DSM 1707).

- 74. Rhizobium meliloti.- 75. Rhodobacter capsulatus SB1003.- 76. Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1T.

- 77. Salmonella typhi.- 78. Salmonella typhimurium.- 79. Serpulina hyodysenteriae B78T.- 80. Staphylococcus aureus.

- 81. Streptococcus pneumoniae R6.- 82. Sulfolobus tokodaii 7.- 83. Synechococcus PCC.- 84. Thermus thermophilus HB8.

- 85. Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum (Nichols).