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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 ...
How Many Wolbachia Supergroups Exist? part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a brief article from Molecular Biology and Evolution (2002) on classification of Wolbachia by molecular phylogenetics. The introduction to the paper provides an overview of previous ...
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 ...
Mix and match: how climate selects phytoplankton part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a research article from the journal Nature on the link between climate-driven physical processes and evolution of microbial communities in the ocean. Topics covered include oceanic nutrient ...
Allopatric origins of microbial species part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a review article about microbial biogeography and speciation published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (2006). The author focuses specifically on the ...
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 ...
Status of the Microbial Census part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article from Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews provides an overview of the status of microbial diversity census efforts as of 2004. The authors describe a novel bioinformatics approach ...
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, ...