Mycoplasma and Eperythrozoon (Mycoplasmataceae). Comments on a recent paper

Safety Assessments and Multiplicity Adjustment: Comments on a Recent Paper

A brief working paper on Mycoplasma diseases of sheep and goats in Iran

Mycoplasma cavipharyngis and Mycoplasma fastidiosum, the closest relatives to Eperythrozoon spp. and Haemobartonella spp.

The 16S rRNA gene sequences of Mycoplasma cavipharyngis and Mycoplasma fastidiosum have been determined. Phylogenetic analysis showed that these species formed a new cluster within the so-called pneumoniae group of the mollicutes (class Mollicutes). This cluster will be referred to as the M. fastidiosum cluster. Interestingly, the M. fastidiosum cluster formed a sister lineage to the haemotroph...

Comments on Oparin’s Paper

This paper by Oparin on the origin of life, which appeared in Russian in 1924, has been taken to represent the first and principal modern appreciation of the problem. Although it is one of the most often cited papers in the literature on the subject, this is the first time, as far as I can ascertain, that it has appeared in English. The English translation published in 1938 was based on Oparin’...

Recent Trends in Archaeological Theory: Some Comments

 This paper selectively reviews some recent themes in archaeological theory:  a philosophical pragmatism, a turn to materiality, and understanding the past in the context of the present.  It concludes with some reflective comments on the author’s Archaeological Theory:  An Introduction, in advance of the third revised edition.