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From: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Dumb Questions about Mitochondria (really rRNA)
Message-ID: <2863@phri.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 12:06:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 12:06:43 1987
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Reply-To: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
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Summary: Plug for microbilogical reviews article

In article <9059@beta.UUCP> dd@beta.UUCP (Dan Davison) writes:
>
>eubacteria's than a eucaryote's.  Also see the section on eucaryotic
>phylogeny in the June Microbiological Reviews article "Bacterial 
>Evolution", also by The Godfather.  It's excellent.
>
>dan davison/theoretical biology/t-10 msk710/LANL/Los Alamos, NM 87545
>dd@lanl.gov (arpa) uucp: still don't know...sorry...check the header...

I just wanted to put in a further plug for the Microbilogical Reviews
article.  Anyone at all interested in evolution, phylogeny, origin of
life or bacterial physiology should read it.  The article is very broad
in scope, very conceptual in tone and very long on explanation.  It is
by no means necessary to be an expert in the field, or even a biologist,
to understand it.  All that is needed is a knowlege of basic molecular
biology (DNA, RNA, protein synthesis) and genetics (simple heredity)
which could have been obtained in a basic undergraduate biology
course, or even an advanced high school course.  The author carefully
and clearly explains all methodology used and how the data was obtained
to generate the phylogenetic trees proposed (uncertainties and
abiguities are also pointed).  In addition the writing is very clear and
forthright and the organization is excellent.  Overall this is one of
the best written scientific papers I have seen in years.  It is also a
very useful reference for those of us who must occassionally wander the
maze of bacterial physiology, as it is presently the most complete
reference of what is related to what.

-- 
Michael Lonetto    UUCP:(allegra!phri!lonetto) 
Dept of Applied Genetics
Public Health Research Institute, 455 1st Ave, NY, NY 10016