Biology 321 Carol Trent Office: BI408 Office Hours Mon & Wed 2:30-3:45pm Email: trent@biol.wwu.edu

Announcements for Biol 321 Winter 2008


Required Reading Assignments:
Weapons of Microbial Drug Resistance Abound in Soil Flora
Loss and gain-of-function mutations in the SCN9A gene affect pain sensation in opposite ways
Summary of article: Life stress and Depression: Getting the Short end of the Allele
The Interpretation of Genes from Natural History 10/02
Parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons
Breakthrough of the Year: Human Genetic Variation
Zebrafish researchers hook gene for human skin color

Optional Reading Assignments:
The Ecological Risks and Benefits of Genetically Engineered Plants
Smallpox's Medieval legacy: resistance to HIV?
Natural Selection and resistance to HIV
Prospects for the Future: AIDS epidemic
Humans as the world's greatest evolutionary force
Super Bugs on the Hoof
Triple-threat Microbe Gained Powers from Another BugSmallpox's Medieval legacy: resistance to HIV?
Natural Selection and resistance to HIV
Prospects for the Future: AIDS epidemic
Humans as the world's greatest evolutionary force
Untangling the Roots of Cancer
Follow this link to an interesting series of articles on human genetics:
The DNA Age
Life stress and Depression: Moderation by a polymorphism in the 5-HTT gene
Deaf by Design
Identical twins grow apart as they age
Absence of Red Eye in snapshot of boy reveals retinoblastoma
Late-breaking genetical news on male baldness
Why is the Y so weird
Gene variation may explain speechless apes
Ancient genetic tricks (accidents) shape up wheat
XXY males and the phenotypic effect of meiotic mistakes
XXY zygotes can arise from non-disjunction in the germline of either parent
Reproducing without meiosis: the grocery-store banana is an asexual, seedless triploid
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