Slides
The slides are here: Class 14: Editing Genomes
Some links to materials for the class:
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Wladyslaw Altermann, Józef Kazmierczak. Archean microfossils: a reappraisal of early life on Earth (Describes fossils of life from over 3.4 Billion years ago.)
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Carl R. Woese and George E. Fox. Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: The primary kingdoms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 1977. (As reported in New York Times: Scientists Discover a Form of Life That Predates Higher Organisms, 3 November 1977.
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Jan Sapp and George E. Fox. The Singular Quest for a Universal Tree of Life. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. December 2013. This paper gives a restrospective view on the work and methods Woese used to understand early life.
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William D. Hamilton. Sex versus Non-Sex versus Parasite (this is the paper that introduces the “Red Queen” theory). Oikos, October 1980.
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Anja Spang, Courtney W. Stairs, Nina Dombrowski, Laura Eme, Jonathan Lombard, Eva F. Caceres, Chris Greening, Brett J. Baker and Thijs J. G. Ettema. Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism. Nature Microbiology, July 2019.
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Pavan Umate, Narendra Tuteja and Renu Tuteja. Genome-wide comprehensive analysis of human helicases. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 2011.