Chapter 4 Readings


Culliton, Barbara J. January 1997. The microbial plague continues. Nature Medicine, vol 3. Despite advances in medical technology, we continue to face apparently new bacteria, viruses, and prions.

Dickson, David. December 1996. A sane response to mad cow link. Nature Medicine, vol 2. A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is linked to cows in England fed parts of prion-infected sheep.

Margulis, Lynn and Michael F. Dolan. January/February 1997. Swimming against the current. The Sciences. Reconstructing endosymbiosis as it led to the evolution of the cell.

Palmer, Jeffrey D. February 7, 1997. Organelle genomes: going, going, gone! Science, vol. 275. A new look at the endosymbiont theory.

Pennisi, Elizabeth. March 21, 1997. First genes isolated from the deadly 1918 flu virus. Science, vol. 275. The flu virus that killed millions in 1918 was simpler than a cell, but deadly.

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