Microbial Population Biology

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Entries from July 11th, 2008

Evolution in a world of parasites

July 11th, 2008 · No Comments · General

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

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The “Lenski affair”

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments · General

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

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