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BIOLOGY OF WOLBACHIA part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is an extensive review of Wolbachia biology published in 1997. Topics covered include history of discovery and study, phylogeny and distribution, Wolbachia-induced alterations in host ...
Two faces of the prokaryote concept part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a review article from International Microbiology (2006) which explores the history and future of the prokaryote concept. Topics covered include the seminal 1962 'Concept of a ...
From Parasite to Mutualist: Rapid Evolution of Wolbachia in Natural Populations of Drosophila part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a research paper on a case study in Wolbachia evolution published in PLoS Biology in 2007. The study takes advantage of a natural experiment - the spread of Wolbachia through California ...
Wolbachia: Evolutionary novelty in a rickettsial bacteria part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a research article on Wolbachia evolution published in BMC Evolutionary Biology in 2001. It presents a molecular phylogenetic study of Wolbachia, Ehrlichia, and Rickettsia. Two gene ...
Eukaryotic microbes, species recognition and the geographic limits of species: examples from the kingdom Fungi part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a review article about fungal biogeography published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (2006). The authors advance the ideas that (a) the perceived geographic ...
Sequences, sequence clusters and bacterial species part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a review article on bacterial species definition from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (2006). The paper covers current/past means of identifying bacterial species, ...
Global patterns in bacterial diversity part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is an article article about global bacterial diversity published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. The authors performed a meta-analysis of bacterial diversity data ...
Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere” part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. The authors used a new high-throughput DNA sequencing technology to show that marine microbial communities ...
Recombination confounds interpretations of Wolbachia evolution. part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This page contains a research article about Wolbachia evolution published in 2001. The authors present evidence of recombination between Wolbachia strains based on phylogenetic analyses. This ...
Cell evolution and Earth history: stasis and revolution part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This review paper synthesizes data from paleontology, comparative morphology, and molecular phylogenetics into a cohesive (if extremely controversial) model of the evolution of life on Earth. Topics ...