Includes bibliographical references and index.

Interspecies interactions promote multispecies communities / Paul E. Kolenbrander and Saravanan Periasamy -- The oral microbiome / Kanitsak Boonanantanasarn and Steven R. Gill -- Genomes of Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus oralis, and Streptococcus infantis / Herv�e S. G. Tettelin and Mogens Kilian -- Biological implications of the Streptococcus sanguinis genome / Todd Kitten, Lauren Senty Turner, and Ping Xu -- Actinomyces oris fimbriae : an adhesive principle in bacterial biofilms and tissue tropism / Hung Ton-That, Asis Das, and Arunima Mishra -- Insights into genus veillonella in the genomics era -- Fusobacteria : bridging between health and disease : a metatranscriptomic approach / Gilad Bachrach, Shunit Coppenhagen-Glazer, and Itamar Simon -- The Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans genome : diversity of pathogenic potential / Knud Poulsen, Herv�e Tettelin, and Mogens Kilian -- Porphyromonas gingivalis : the role of surface structures in virulence and biofilm development / Mary Ellen Davey, Heike Boisvert, and Annette Arndt -- Genome functions of Tannerella forsythia in bacterial communities / Ashu Sharma -- Treponomics : Treponema denticola genome and functions / J. Christopher Fenno -- Candida albicans colonization and community development / Howard F. Jenkinson and Carol A. Munro -- Functional genomics of Streptococcus mutans / Robert A. Burne ... [et al.] -- Interactions of porphyromonas gingivalis with human gingival epithelium / �Ozlem Yilmaz -- Fusobacterium nucleatum interaction with host cells / Yiping W. Han --

Competence-stimulating peptides in oral bacterial signaling : possible implications in a community life / Fernanda Cristina Petersen and Anne Aamdal Scheie -- Autoinducer-2-regulated genes in Streptococcus mutans and impact on oral bacterial communities / Julie A. Perry and Dennis G. Cvitkovitch -- Alternative autoinducer-2 quorum-sensing response circuits : impact on microbial community development / Donald R. Demuth, Elizabeth Novak, and Hanjuan Shao -- Cell-cell contact-induced gene regulation in Streptococcus gordonii-actinomyces oris communities / Nicholas S. Jakubovics -- Metabolite sensing in a model polymicrobial community / Matthew Ramsey ... [et al.] -- Heterotypic Streptococcus gordonii-porphyromonas gingivalis communities : formation, gene regulation, and development / Masae Kuboniwa and Richard J. Lamont -- Antagonistic, synergistic, and counteroffensive strategies for streptococcal interspecies interactions / Jens Kreth ... [et al.] -- Role for autoinducer-2 in the development of commensal streptococcal biofilms / Alexander H. Rickard, Adam J. Underwood, and Shawn R. Campagna -- The Streptococcus-veillonella community : how genome sequencing aids our understanding of interspecies interaction / Fengxia Qi and Joseph J. Ferretti -- Spatiotemporal organization of multispecies communities in the human oral microbiome / Robert J. Palmer Jr. and Paul E. Kolenbrander.

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