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
Administrative Competition: copy of my species book 4 Oct 201127 Oct 2011 My book Species: A History of the Idea is soon to be available in paperback. I have a few copies I’d like to share, so put your name in the comments and make sure your email is filled out (it doesn’t get shown publicly) and I will roll some virtual… Read More
Evolution New ape fossil 22 Aug 2007 The National Geographic and the news services are touting a new ape fossil found in Ethiopia as “forcing a rethink on human evolution”. As usual, the headlines are hyperbolic. This ape is fragmentary, and so far only teeth and a jaw bone have been found, and the teeth are similar… Read More
Evolution A nice discussion of the problems of Evolutionary Psychology 24 Dec 2008 Here at monkey’s uncle, the blog of James Holland Jones, a Stanford anthropologist. Well worth the read. Basically he attacks the presumption that there was some kind of Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness needed to make the rest of the EP argument. Merry Christmas. Or should I say Happy Holidays, being… 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