Viruses throughout life & time friends, foes, change agents : a report from the American Academy of Microbiology
The microbial world was revolutionized in 1977 when Carl Woese demonstrated that the 16S ribosomal RNA gene could be used to trace the evolutionary relationships among bacteria. Among the revelations of the discovery was that the Archaea, previously thought to be a curious subgroup of bacteria restr...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
American Society for Microbiology
[2013], 2013
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| Summary: | The microbial world was revolutionized in 1977 when Carl Woese demonstrated that the 16S ribosomal RNA gene could be used to trace the evolutionary relationships among bacteria. Among the revelations of the discovery was that the Archaea, previously thought to be a curious subgroup of bacteria restricted to extreme environments, was in fact an evolutionarily distinct domain of life. Subsequent use of conserved ribosomal gene biomarkers expanded beyond the microbial world to sequence and organize all life on Earth, and revealed that bacteria can be as different from one another as single celled yeast are from humans. Now the relationship of every cellular organism to every other could be pictured in one coherent "tree of life." |
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| Item Description: | "Report on an American Academy of Microbiology Colloquium San Francisco, July 2013." |
| Physical Description: | 1 PDF file (25 pages) illustrations |