Archive for July, 2008

Evolution in a world of parasites »

By Vaughn on Jul 11, 2008 in General | 0 Comments

Kinda cool: see http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/full/74/14/4256
Spontaneous Deletion of a 209-Kilobase-Pair Fragment from the Escherichia coli Genome Occurs with Acquisition of Resistance to an Assortment of Infectious Phages
Yasunori Tanji,* Kenji Hattori, Kohichi Suzuki, and Kazuhiko Miyanaga

The “Lenski affair” »

By Vaughn on Jul 6, 2008 in General | 0 Comments

This exchange is a small fraction of the commentary following Rich Lenski’s recent PNAS article (http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0803151105) but perhaps the funniest.
Enjoy!
http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Lenski_affair
Please comment here or there if some of this makes you smile