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  • M. pneumoniae is a poster organism for this concept.

    2010 June - Telic Thoughts 2010

  • The consensus about M. pneumoniae is that an organism with a much simpler genome once preceded it in the timeline of natural history.

    2010 March - Telic Thoughts 2010

  • ¬ † ¬ † Not a word though on how Streptococcus pneumoniae is doing.

    NASA Watch: August 2007 Archives 2007

  • ¬ † ¬ † Not a word though on how Streptococcus pneumoniae is doing.

    Another Drive-by Science Critique From Bob Park - NASA Watch 2007

  • Our project involves taking genes from a pathogenic bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is by no means ideal, but an alternative could not be found in a non-pathogenic species.

    OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Our project involves taking genes from a pathogenic bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, which is by no means ideal, but an alternative could not be found in a non-pathogenic species.

    OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en] Kirill Shkura 2010

  • Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of ear infections, bacterial meningitis, and infant septicemia.

    Losing Baby Fat Lowers Heart Risks Later Ann Lukits 2011

  • One Microbe as a Group of 200 Protein Machines is a New York Times article discussing protein complexes of the organism Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

    2009 December - Telic Thoughts 2009

  • Prokaryotes are far simpler then eukaryotes, and M. pneumoniae has one of the smallest genomes of the prokaryotes.

    2010 June - Telic Thoughts 2010

  • Much like Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), pneumococcal bacteria (Streptococcus pneumoniae) affect the most defenseless of the population (infants and toddlers).

    Pneumococcus Vaccine 2010

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