Welcome to anyone sent here by the estimable Derwin Darwin II’s time-travelling Tangled Bank blog carnival. In addition to the ag-ec posts we wanted people to see and comment on, he’s individuated a few posts that might be of wider interest to the community here. First off, Larry Moran’s two-part series on penicillin resistance: before 1960 and after 1960. I’m never too sure whether to delight in the diversity of useful organisms that produce antibiotics, or tremble at the waste of bacterial (and not just bacterial) sensitivity that intensive and simple agriculture causes.
There’s a questionable rant about rice engineered to express cholera antigens from S.A. Smith.
Thinkevolution.net has a personal take on the bee shortage and colony collapse disorder. Her dad is a beekeeper.
And the chicken — a species close to my heart — gets a good going over at Matt’s Behavioral Ecology Blog.
Thanks to Greg Laden for giving Derwin Darwin II the space to blog.