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The parasitic bacterium Wolbachia and the origin of the eukaryotic cell part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This scientific abstract analyzes the relationships between eukaryotes and alphaproteobacteria, specifically Wolbachia pipientis, as a key in understanding the rise of mitochondria leading to the ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Evolution:Processes, Biology:Microbiology, Biology, Evolution:Patterns, Principles, Biology:Ecology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Biology:Evolution
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
The Tripartite Associations between Bacteriophage, Wolbachia, and Arthropods part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This research paper describes a set of quantitative approaches to characterizing phage densities and its associations with bacterial densities and cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) within Wolbachia. ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology, Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology :Molecular Methods, Microscopy, Biology, Evolution:Processes, Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Biology:Evolution:Principles, Patterns
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Doxycycline Reduces Plasma VEGF-C/sVEGFR-3 and Improves Pathology in Lymphatic Filariasis part of SERC Web Resource Collection
According to this PLoS Pathogens paper, doxycycline is able to kill adult worms responsible for lymphatic filariasis, thus improving lymphatic vessel dilation and significantly ameliorating the ...Subject: Biology: Biology, Microbiology:Microbiology and Health, Biology:Microbiology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
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 ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology , Methods of Microbiology :Molecular Methods, Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Diversity, Evolution:Bioinformatics, Biology:Evolution, Evolution:Patterns
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Bibliography, Research Results, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Bibliography, Research Results, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional
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 ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Evolution:Patterns, Processes, Biology:Molecular Biology, Biology, Evolution:Principles, Biology:Microbiology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Biology:Ecology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Parasitism, Biology:Evolution
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
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 ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Evolution:Processes, Biology:Microbiology, Microbiology:Microbiology and Health, Biology, Evolution:Patterns, Biology:Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism, Parasitism
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Bibliography, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Bibliography, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
The Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), Simple or Complex? part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a PDF version of an article that focuses on the difficulties inherent in attempting to root the tree of life and establish the nature of the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) using ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Evolution:Patterns, Biology:Evolution, Biology
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
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 ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology, Evolution:Bioinformatics, Patterns, Biology:Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology , Methods of Microbiology :Molecular Methods, Biology, Molecular Biology, Evolution, Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology :Field Methods , Biology:Ecology, Diversity:Censuses, Biology:Diversity, Ecology:Metabolism, Habitats:Terrestrial, Biology:Ecology:Habitats, Habitats:Marine
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Research Results, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Research Results, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional
The bacterial species definition in the genomic era part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a research article published in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (2006). The authors use a comparative genomics approach to evaluate the current bacterial species ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology , Biology:Molecular Biology, Biology, Microbiology, Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology :Molecular Methods, Biology:Evolution, Diversity, Evolution:Principles, Patterns
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Research Results, Scientific Resources
Grade Level: Graduate/Professional
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 ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology , Biology:Microbiology, Evolution:Patterns, Biology:Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology :Field Methods , Biology:Molecular Biology, Biology, Ecology:Metabolism, Biology:Evolution, Microbiology:Methods of Microbiology :Molecular Methods, Biology:Ecology, Ecology:Habitats:Water Column, Biology:Diversity:Censuses, Biology:Diversity, Ecology:Habitats:Benthic, Terrestrial, Marine
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Scientific Resources, Research Results
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Scientific Resources, Research Results
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional