Dwilliams Week 10 assignment
From LMU BioDB 2013
Electronic Journal Week 10
- Used the EBI Microarray database.
- Selected article: [| Developmental stage-specific metabolic and transcriptional activity of Chlamydia trachomatis in an axenic medium]
- Chlamydiae undergo a biphasic developmental cycle characterized by an infectious cell type known as either an elementary body (EB) and an intracellular replicative form called a reticulate body (RB). Chlamydia was incubated under microaerobic conditions to test the differences in preferred energy source between EB's and RB's.
- There weren't necessarily a "treatment" group and a "control" group. Referencing figure 4, it can be inferred that EB would be considered the "treatment" group because of the way that the ratio was set up, being EB to RB. In this way the RB would be the "control" group as they are looking at the EB population relative to the RB population.
