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Chlamydial evolution articles: ForewordJim Moulder has has a long and distinguished career in chlamydial research and has trained other prominent chlamydial researchers. He has a real gift of communication and continues to be one of the chlamydial world's original thinkers, with an enormous breadth of knowledge of microbiology generally. Jim was the the obvious choice to write what, at the time, I thought it would be a few "pages" on the evolution of the Chlamydiales. It turned out to be 60 pages!When Jim kindly agreed to write this article specially for this site, I did not know that he was facing a major operation. Typically, he completed the article before his operation. Apparently it was a "welcome distraction". Fortunately, the operation was a complete success. Thanks to Karin Everett, Tom Hatch and Gerry Byrne (one of Jim's former students) who promptly reviewed the Moulder manuscript and made valuable suggestions. I suspect I would not have persuaded them, if it had been other than Jim Moulder. Thanks also to Jim's family for their forebearance, and to Dave Cantrell of the Biocomputation Centre, University of Arizona at Tucson, for ftp facilities. No thanks to a Arizonan desert pack rat, which at one point frustrated communication by gnawing through Jim's data cable. [MEW] Jan 2002 NEXT: Moulder, J. W. (2002) Chlamydial evolution. Many questions, Few Answers |
