Picoeukaryotes 29 Jul 2008 Electron cryotomographic reconstruction of a C. merolae cell. n = nucleus; c = chloroplast; p = peroxisome; er = endoplasmic reticulum. Source Elio Schaechter has a typically informative and informed post on the smallest eukaryotes, a kind of algae called picoeukaryotes. These guys make up half the biomass of all marine phages. Only known for about five or six years… Ecology and Biodiversity Evolution Species and systematics
General Science Can an elephant paint? 30 Mar 2008 Watch the video under the fold, from Chang Mai in Thailand. There’s a moment where you realise what the elephant is representing, and a shock that comes when you see that it is representing something. I don’t know if it’s been trained to do this but it looks real to… Read More
Biology Taxonomist’s revenge 21 Jun 2009 There’s a long and distinguished history of taxonomists taking revenge upon friends and enemies (sometimes simultaneously!) by naming unpleasant things after them. Linnaeus himself named an ugly useless weed after his major critic, Siegesbeck, who had attacked the “sexual system” of Linnaean botany. More recently, Quentin Wheeler named three types… Read More
Evolution I hate a barnacle… 6 Jan 2008 …said Charles Darwin, more than any man ever has. He should have, too – he spent seven years of his life working up the first encyclopedic monograph on the group. But that pales into insignificance compared to Alan Southward, who died last year. The Other 95% has a very nice… Read More
John, Your kind comments gladden out hearts. Alias Ernest Major, Yes, we mean phages. See, for example, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_2_164/ai_106290540
John, Your kind comments gladden out hearts. Alias Ernest Major, Yes, we mean phages! See, for example, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_2_164/ai_106290540
John, Your kind comments gladden out hearts. Alias Ernest Major, Yes, we mean phages! See, for example, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_2_164/ai_106290540
I agree with alias Ernest Major that something doesn’t quite add up here. An alga (eukaryote) is not a phage (virus that infects bacteria).
I agree with alias Ernest Major that something doesn’t quite add up here. An alga (eukaryote) is not a phage (virus that infects bacteria).
The article says that the total mass of picoeukaryotes equals the total mass of phages, not that they are half of the the mass of phages. Like Alias Ernst Major and Stuart I’m under the impression that phages are viruses.
Bacteriophages are a type of virus that attack bacteria. They are usually shortened to just ‘phages’. However ‘phage’ on it’s own just translates to ‘eater’ and could mean something different. ~Lab Rat