SamanthaM

As I have stated before, microbial ecology and evolution is something that i have never thought about before. So in reviewing the Costs and Benefits of High Mutation Rates paper it was interesting to see how meticulous it is to identify simple features of an organism and how they evolved. All in all it makes me appreciate those who are willing to take the time and sift though all the phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of these organisms.
In reviewing this paper, it makes me think about the Fuzzy Species Among Recombinogenic Bacteria paper and how challenging it was for them to organize due to bacterial promiscuity. Maybe the analysis of the organisms in the might mutation rates paper could help the speciation organization. But like I said… this is new to me. Just a thought.