Reading List
(Caltech-only PDFs)
Please note: this list is tentative and may change as the term progresses.
- Dadachova E, et al. Ionizing Radiation Changes the Electronic Properties of Melanin and Enhances the Growth of Melanized Fungi. Plos One (2007) vol. 2(5)
- Dantas et al. Bacteria Subsisting on Antibiotics. Science (2008) vol. 320 pp. 100-103
- Darwin and Wallace. No Title. The Joint Darwin-Wallace Paper of 1858. (2008) pp. 1-12
- Hugenholtz. Exploring prokaryotic diversity in the genomic era. Genome Biology (2002) vol. 3 (2) pp. 1-8
- Lee JB, Hite RK, Hamdan SM, Xie XS, Richardson CC, et al. DNA primase acts as a molecular brake in DNA replication. Nature (2006) vol. 439 pp. 621-624
- Losos JB, Queiroz Kd. Darwin's Lizards: like Galapagos' finches, anoles of the Greater Antilles have proved to be eminently adaptable. Natural History (1997) vol. 106 n11 pp. 34-35
- Monod. The Growth of Bacterial Cultures. Annual Review Microbiology (1949) pp. 371-385
- Moran, U., R. Phillips, and R. Milo. SnapShot: Key Numbers in Biology. Cell (2010) vol. 141(7): pp. 1262-1262
- Neidhardt FC. Bacterial growth: Constant obsession with dN/dt. Journal of Bacteriology (1999) vol. 181 pp. 7405-7408
- Nurse. The great ideas of biology. Clinical Medicine (2003) vol. 3 (6) pp. 560-568
- Pace. The Universal Nature of Biochemistry. PNAS (2001) vol. 98 (3) pp. 805-808
- Pace NR. Time for a change. Nature (2006) vol. 441: pp. 289
- Purcell EM. Life at Low Reynolds-Number. American Journal of Physics (1977) vol. 45 pp. 3-11
- Pushkarev et al. Single-molecule sequencing of an individual human genome. Nature Biotechnology (2009) vol. 27 (9) pp. 847-850
- Qin et al. A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing. Nature (2010) vol. 464 (7285) pp. 59-65 (Supp. Info.)
- Rosenfeld et al. Gene Regulation at the Single-Cell Level. Science (2005) (307) pp. 1962-1965
- Savage et al. Spatially Ordered Dynamics of the Bacterial Carbon Fixation Machinery. Science (2010) vol. 327 (5970) pp. 1258-1261
- Takahashi and Yamanaka. Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors. Cell (2006) vol. 126 pp. 663-676
- Van den Broek et al. Real-time observation of DNA looping dynamics of Type IIE restriction enzymes NaeI and NarI. Nucleic Acids Research (2006) vol. 34 (1) pp. 167-174
- Venter et al. Environmental Genome Shotgun Sequencing of the Sargasso Sea. Science (2004) (394) pp. 66-74
- Wallace. On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinietly from the Original Type. Ternate (1858) pp. 1-9
- Wallace. On the Law which has Regulated the Introduction of New Species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1855) vol. 16 pp. 1184-196
- Whitman et al. Prokaryotes: The unseen majority. PNAS (1998) pp. 6578-6583
- Zenklusen et al. Single-RNA counting reveals alternative modes of gene expression in yeast. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology (2008) vol. 15 (12) pp. 1263-1271
