Articles that are discussed in class will be posted here.

Lecture 2

1. Pace, Science, 276:7354-740, 1997, "A Molecular View of Microbial Diversity and the Biosphere."

Procaryotes?

1. Woese, Microbiological Reviews, 58:1-9, 1994, "There Must be a Prokaryote Somewhere: Microbiology's Search for Itself ."

2. Sapp, MMBR, 69:292-305, 2005, "The Prokaryote-Eukaryote Dichotomy: Meanings and Mythology ."

3. Pace, Nature, 441:289, 2006, "Time for a Change."

4. Pace, Microbe, 3:15-20, 2008, "The Molecular Tree of Life Changes How We See, Teach Microbial Diversity."

A Procaryote Dialogue

The three manuscripts in this section are in press in J. Bacteriol.  Originally, Whitman submitted to J. Bacteriol. His article defending the “modern concept of procaryote” (Whitman dialog.pdf).  The Editor of the journal then asked me to write critically about procaryote (Pace.Procaryote Dialog.pdf, the two articles to appear as a “dialog.”  We then each write a rebuttal of the other’s article.  My rebuttal to Whitman (PaceAnswerToWhitman.pdf) is included.  I have not seen Whitman’s answer to my part of the dialog.

1. Whitman Dialog

2. Pace. Procaryote Dialog

3. PaceAnswerTo Whitman

Lecture 6

1. Pace, PNAS, 98:805-808, 2001, "The Universal Nature of Biochemistry."

Mapping the Tree of Life

This article is accepted to MMBR and will be out in print soon. By the end of class, you should be able to understand and critique the entire article.

1. Pace, MMBR, "Mapping the Tree of Life"

Woese and Goldenfeld

1. Woese and Goldenfeld MMBR, 73:14-21, 2009,"How the Microbial World Saved Evolution from the Scylla of Molecular Biology and the Charybdis of Modern Synthesis"

Lecture 12, Cyanobacteria

1. Zehr et al., Science, 322:1110-1112, 2008, "Globally distributed uncultivated oceanic N2-fixing cyanobacteria lack oxygenic photosystem II "

  Optional Articles on Biowarfare

1. Preston, R. The bioweaponeers. The New Yorker, March 9, 1998, pp. 52-65

2. Preston, R. The demon in the freezer. The New Yorker, July 12, 1999, pp. 44-61.

3. Wheelis, M. 2002. Biological warfare at the 1346 seige on Caffa. Emerging Infectious Diseases 8(9): 971-975.

4. Hawley, R.J., and Eitzen, E.M. 2001. Biological weapons: a primer for microbiologists Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 55:235–53.

Optional Articles on Probiotics

1. ASM Report: Probiotic Microbes: The Scientific Basis