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I'm a bacteria guy, so I'll recommend a book of microbiology essays:
http://www.amazon.ca/Microbes-Evolution-World-Darwin-Never/dp/1555815405
There's lots of cool stuff going on with the organisms that we can't see!
Some suggestions are below. They aren't "field guides" but are still some good choices. I admit I haven't finished March of the Microbes or Missing Microbes but Microbes and Evolution is a fantastic collection of essays.
March of the Microbes
Microbes and Evolution: The World Darwin Never Saw
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
I'm currently chewing my way through Microbes and Evolution: The World That Darwin Never Saw. It's a series of essays on microbial evolution.
Loosing genetic information is often just another way of saying that a species became more efficient.
This can be seen throughout nature. In Viruses particularly its interesting, a smaller and more efficient genome can help alot in efficiency. Loosing a gene that codes for a certain protein can make the virus overcome an Immune-defense of the host and thus be able to infect the cell.
Mass and quantity is not class.
Evolution is considerably more then just hoarding more genes. If you are interested in evolution i highly recommend this book
"Microbes and Evolution: The world that Darwin never saw"
Its a great book that explains some very complex things in very easy to understand terms.