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Entries from November 27th, 2007

Grant proposal examples

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments · grant proposals

Here are some examples of grant proposals that might help you: Cooper, COBRE 2007: Cooper COBRE, less abstract Cooper, NSF 2007: career-2007-complete-application.pdf (more to be added)

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Articles for weeks of 11/27 and 12/4

November 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

For 11/27: Cooper, evolution of virulence proc roc Also, visit PubMed and select an article to discuss in class that bears on the evolution of virulence For 12/4:  Gordon, zebrafish:mouse transplant Gordon, zebrafish:mouse transplant supp methods Also, visit: http://collections.plos.org/plosbiology/gos-2007.php

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Prior assigned readings copied from Blackboard

November 19th, 2007 · No Comments · assignments

1. Whitaker et al Archaea biogeography:  whitaker-archea-biogeography.pdf 2. Green and Bohannan microbial biogeography review: green-and-bohannan-tree-2006.pdf 3. von Mering et al microbial community composition: von-meering-et-al-science-2007-quantitative-phylogeny.pdf 4. Cohan species concept Annual Review: cohan-annrev-micro-02-species-definition.pdf 5. Gevers et al species concept Nat Rev: species-concept-nat-rev-micro05.pdf

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Cooperation and cheating in Myxococcus

November 14th, 2007 · No Comments · assignments

As mentioned on the main page, here are the readings for cheating and cooperation in Myxos. Of all of these, I believe that articles 2, 3, and 4, below, are the ones most worth your close attention, but I have posted all for you to get the complete picture.  A slideset summarizing the high points [...]

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More dilemma’s

November 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Here is another paper that I thought you all might be interested in.  It addresses Prisoner’s Dilemma as well as some other theories. Steffen      public-goods-and-social-dilemmas.pdf

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Cheating and prisoner’s dilemma in RNA viruses

November 4th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Here are three articles for the week of 11/05: 1. Turner and Chao Nature 1998 2. Turner and Chao American Naturalist 1998 (Escape from PD) 3.Turner and Chao Genetics 1998

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