MCB 394-01 or EEB 469-01, 1 cr.
| Date |
Topic |
Presenter(s) |
| 29 Aug. 2005 |
Introduction |
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| 12 Sept. 2005 |
Mc Fall-Ngai, M. 1998. The development of cooperative associations between animals and bacteria: establishing detente among Domains. Amer. Zool. 38: 593-608. |
JG |
| 19 Sept. 2005 |
Keeling, P J. 2004. Diversity and evolutionary history of plastids and their hosts. Am. J. Bot. 91: 1481-1493. |
Norm |
| 26 Sept. 2005 |
von Dohlen CD, Kohler S, Alsop ST, McManus WR. 2001. Mealybug beta-proteobacterial endosymbionts contain gamma-proteobacterial symbionts. Nature 412(6845):433-6 (July 26). |
Preston, Jon |
3 Oct. 2005
[note: JOOT] |
Lupp, C. and Ruby, E.G. 2005. Vibrio fischeri Uses Two Quorum-Sensing Systems for the Regulation of Early and Late Colonization Factors. J. Bacteriology 187: 3620-3629.
Nice optional review:
Nyholm, S.V. and McFall-Ngai, M.J. 2004. The winnowing: establishing the squid-Vibrio symbiosis. Reviews Microbiology 2, 632-642. |
Ken |
| 10 Oct. 2005 |
Venti, Z., et al. 2004. Heads or Tails: Host-Parasite Interactions in the Drosophila-Wolbachia System. Appl. Environm. Microbio. 70: 5366-5372.
|
Adam, Kira |
17 Oct. 2005 |
Wolschin, F., Holldobler, B., Gross, R. and E. Zientz. 2004. Replication of the Endosymbiotic Bacterium Blochmannia floridanus Is Correlated with the Developmental and Reproductive Stages of Its Ant Host. Appl. Environm. Microbiol. 70 (7): 4096-4102.
Nice background reading: Boursaux-Eude, Caroline, Roy Gross. 2000. New Insights into symbiotic associations between ants and bacteria. Res. Microbiol.
151: 513-519.
|
Carla |
| 24 Oct. 2005 |
Fiala-Medioni, A. et al. 2002. Ultrastructural, biochemical, and immunological characterization of two populations of the mytilid mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: evidence for a dual symbiosis. Marine Biology 141: 1035-1043. |
Molly, Shauna |
| 31 Oct. 2005 |
Koga, R., Tsuchida, T., and T. Fukatsu. 2003. Changing partners in an obligate symbiosis: a facultative endosymbiont can compensate for loss of the essential endosymbiont Buchnera in an aphid. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (2003) 270, 2543–2550.
Nice background reading:
A. E. Douglas. 1998. NUTRITIONAL INTERACTIONS IN INSECT-MICROBIAL SYMBIOSES: Aphids and Their Symbiotic Bacteria Buchnera. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 1998. 43:17-37. |
Daniel |
| 7 Nov. 2005 |
Tokuda, G., et al. 2000.
Localization of Symbiotic Clostridia in the Mixed Segment of the Termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis (Shiraki). Appl. Env. Microb. 66:2199-2207. |
Derek, Ying |
| 14 Nov. 2005 |
Y. Hu, S. Aksoy. 2005. An antimicrobial peptide with trypanocidal activity characterized from Glossina morsitans morsitans. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 35: 105-115.
Nice background reading:
S. Aksoy, R.V.M. Rio. 2005. Interactions among multiple genomes: Tsetse, its symbionts and trypanosomes. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 35: 691-698.
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Michele, Jim |
| 28 Nov. 2005 |
R.D. Gates et al. 1995. Free Amino Acids Exhibit Anthozoan Host Factor Activity: They Induce the Release of Photosynthate from Symbiotic Dinoflagellates in vitro. PNAS 92:7430-7434. |
Greg, Chris |
| 5 Dec. 2005 |
C. Dale et al. 2002. Type III secretion systems and the evolution of mutualistic endosymbiosis. PNAS 99: 12397-12402. |
Juliana, Holly |
Readings can be accessed by selecting the above links (or will be provided in hard form in class if no pdf is available).
