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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
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One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another's part of SERC Web Resource Collection
According to this online article, scientists have discovered a copy of the genome of the bacterial parasite Wolbachia residing inside the genome of its host species. It explains that lateral gene ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Evolution:Processes, Biology:Molecular Biology, Biology, Evolution:Patterns, Biology:Microbiology, Evolution, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Biology:Ecology
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Parasite Invades Its Host's DNA part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Number 73 out of the top 100 science stories of 2007, this article highlights the ability of Wolbachia bacteria to transfer nearly their entire genome into the cells of a multicellular host. The ...Subject: Biology: Biology, Evolution, Microbiology, Ecology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations
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Grade Level: General Public, High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
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Horizontal Gene Transfer part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Citizendium article offers a comprehensive review of horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Topics include main features of HGT in nature, HGT in prokaryotes, HGT in eukaryotes, history and discovery ...Subject: Biology: Biology, Evolution, Microbiology, Ecology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations
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Grade Level: General Public, College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
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Symbiosis part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This online textbook chapter reviews symbiotic relationships, specifically mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. The chapter includes examples for each relationship as well as a discussion about ...Subject: Biology: Biology, Microbiology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Commensalism, Biology:Evolution, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Parasitism, Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Symbiotic Relations:Mutualism
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
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Symbiotic enemies fight over insect part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This online news article reports that bacteriophage affects the control Wolbachia has over host reproduction, particularly the processes of cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in which infected males ...Subject: Biology: Biology, Evolution, Microbiology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations
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Wolbachia and Wasp Evolution part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Science news brief summarizes the startling effect that Wolbachia have on the reproduction of their insect hosts. It offers an overview of cytoplasmic incompatibility and its role in ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Evolution:Processes, Biology:Microbiology, Biology, Evolution:Patterns, Principles, Biology:Ecology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Biology:Evolution
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Infection Divides Two Wasp Species part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Giving antibiotics to tiny wasps to cure them of a sex-related disease reveals the best evidence yet that infections can help make new species, reports this news article. Based on the research of ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Evolution:Patterns, Processes, Biology:Microbiology, Biology, Evolution:Principles, Biology:Ecology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Parasitism, Biology:Evolution
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
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Bacteria Spurs Speciation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This brief Scientific American article reports that the infectious bacterium Wolbachia has been shown to serve as a reproductive barrier in wasps, thus keeping species reproductively separated in ...Subject: Biology: Biology:Evolution:Processes, Biology:Microbiology, Biology, Evolution:Patterns, Principles, Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Symbiotic Relations:Parasitism, Biology:Evolution
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Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8)
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Bacterium Can Alter Evolution Of Another Species part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Daily University Science News article reviews scientific evidence that the parasitic bacterium Wolbachia can accelerate the natural evolution of wasps by altering the sperm of its male host, ...Subject: Biology: Biology, Evolution:Processes, Biology:Microbiology, Ecology:Symbiotic Relations:Parasitism, Biology:Evolution:Patterns
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Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
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