In cryptonomicron there is a great passage describing how the main character (forgot his name) starts a masters program, sometime shortly after he foolishly hints that he knows *nix, the next line is something like "three years later, without a degree, he left...". Its funny cuz its true.
W. spp. have been found in an amazing number of Arthropods...and has, as mentioned great implications for evolutionary studies. You can check out this, this or this for a couple of interesting articles on the subject.
Its really not old news either, the extent of Wolbachia infections is not known (if 10% of species are described you can hardly know if the other %90 are infected). Note that there are many "species" of Wolbachia as well, perhaps not even related (in the same genus) and that hosts may be infected by multiple "species" each combination of which may have different effects! What this comes down to is that you basically need to overlap two phylogenies (family trees/networks etc.) now to get a picture of what's going with regards to the evolution of your target organism. Really cool.
Surely they've come to the same conclusions as you just have...they know that you know that the public doesn't know... and what kinda response its gonna provoke. Give them a little credit (arg)...be more paranoid...
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In cryptonomicron there is a great passage describing how the main character (forgot his name) starts a masters program, sometime shortly after he foolishly hints that he knows *nix, the next line is something like "three years later, without a degree, he left...". Its funny cuz its true.
Actually Evolution has been OK with Catholics for a long time (70's I think). Get your religion right.
Speciation. Define that. There are at least 40 different definitions I can get my hands on in seconds.
W. spp. have been found in an amazing number of Arthropods...and has, as mentioned great implications for evolutionary studies. You can check out this, this or this for a couple of interesting articles on the subject.
Its really not old news either, the extent of Wolbachia infections is not known (if 10% of species are described you can hardly know if the other %90 are infected). Note that there are many "species" of Wolbachia as well, perhaps not even related (in the same genus) and that hosts may be infected by multiple "species" each combination of which may have different effects! What this comes down to is that you basically need to overlap two phylogenies (family trees/networks etc.) now to get a picture of what's going with regards to the evolution of your target organism. Really cool.Surely they've come to the same conclusions as you just have...they know that you know that the public doesn't know... and what kinda response its gonna provoke. Give them a little credit (arg)...be more paranoid...