University of Arizona Biology

UA honors biology professor Willot

Honors Bio Home: http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/181h

This web site is the culmination of Honors Biology students at The University of Arizona Fall 2007 in

coordination with Dr. Scott Kroken and the individuals and entities accredited in the credits.

"Emergence of a new disease as a result of interspecific virulence gene transfer"

by: Timothy Friesen, Eva H Stukenbrock, Ahaohui Liu, Steven Meinhardt, Hua Ling

Justing D Faris, Jack B Rasmussen, Peter S Solomon, Bruce A McDonald, and Richard P Oliver

published by: nature publishing group

What you will learn:

-Why it is currently thought that interspecific gene transfer does occur between fungal species discussed.

-How the experiments were conducted, and. why and how each method works Methods

-Why it is important to biology as well as society

What does it all mean?

-summary: This is the primary source for content. This article contains all of theimportant aspects of thescientific paper

without being concerned with every detail of the experiments.If you understand this, you will understand the paper.

-abstract : A scientific summary with links to definitions