http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2004/06/03/battle-of-the-hole-punchers/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:00:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2004/06/03/battle-of-the-hole-punchers/comment-page-1/#comment-1230 Tom H. Sat, 05 Jun 2004 08:32:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2004/06/03/battle-of-the-hole-punchers/#comment-1230 I'm not an expert in biology, but it was a good article from what I got from it. If I get a chance, I will try to make sense of the information presented in the article. I’m not an expert in biology, but it was a good article from what I got from it. If I get a chance, I will try to make sense of the information presented in the article.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2004/06/03/battle-of-the-hole-punchers/comment-page-1/#comment-1229 Paul Orwin Fri, 04 Jun 2004 07:02:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2004/06/03/battle-of-the-hole-punchers/#comment-1229 An interesting question from the abstract; why do Thermatogae have this gene? These are considered one of the deepest branching groups of eubacteria, and are not (to my knowledge) associated with disease (they live in high temperature marine environments, IIRC). Some of the other listed organisms seem unlikely to have acquired the gene by horizontal transfer from metazoans, although clearly we are pretty blind to the long term Eukarya/Eubacteria interactions over evolutionary time, so who knows. Very interesting paper (I'll have to read the rest sometime soon. An interesting question from the abstract; why do Thermatogae have this gene? These are considered one of the deepest branching groups of eubacteria, and are not (to my knowledge) associated with disease (they live in high temperature marine environments, IIRC). Some of the other listed organisms seem unlikely to have acquired the gene by horizontal transfer from metazoans, although clearly we are pretty blind to the long term Eukarya/Eubacteria interactions over evolutionary time, so who knows. Very interesting paper (I’ll have to read the rest sometime soon.

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