This Week in Microbiology

TWiM #50: These things aren’t even bacteria!

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Created on Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:16

Written by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Stanley Maloy.

Vincent, Michael, and Stanley review the scientific career of Carl Woese. 

Right click to download TWiM #50 (47 MB .mp3, 64 minutes).

Links for this episode:

• Solving the puzzle (MicrobeWorld Video)
• Classification of methanogens by 16S rRNA (PNAS)
• Ancient divergence among bacteria (J Mol Evol)
• Intrepreting the phylogenetic tree (PNAS)
• Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain (PNAS)
• My kind of biology (Ann Rev Micro)
• Tribute to Carl Woese (Tree of Life)
• A manifesto for microbial genomics (Curr Biol)
• Eisen analysis of ‘manifesto’ (Tree of Life)
• Most important paper in microbiology? (Tree of Life)
• Phylogenetic placement of Spirosomaceae (System. Appl. Microbiol)

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