Talk:Ehrlichia

message: Hi I'm2015evolution7 (talk) 13:57, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed minor grammar errors and improved sentence structures (please compare versions if needed). In the fifth paragraph under Evolution section, I changed 'we' to 'it was' since the observation was not done by us. Similar change was done in the next paragraph too. Most importantly, I added Wikilinks (hyperlinks that direct readers to other Wikipedia articles). About the information presented, why was Anaplasma mentioned in the fourth paragraph? I don't think it adds anything to this article about Ehrlichia. Also, there are some sentences that are left un-cited (e.g. "The host metabolic pathway enzymes ~ need for a host", "The more outer-membrane protein ~ the host's immune system.". etc.) Overall, nice flow of logic; the points brought up are coherent and easy to follow. Khzzang9 (talk) 04:48, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

text: I also added subheadings under Evolution section for better format. Khzzang9 (talk) 04:56, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: @2015Evolution7  
Thanks for revising my grammar and simplifying my complex text. I went had and took out extraneous details and summarized the specifics. I also revised some grammar. 
@cheesecakefantasy
Thank you for your suggestions on reductive evolution. I simplified the section and explained a little more on the effect of reductive evolution. I got rid of the heading and blended the information to the rest of the article. 
@ Dr. FF
Thank for your comments they were very helpful and made the article much more cohesive. I switched up the organization of the article and differentiated the phenotypic changes due to evolution and the genomic differences. I also elaborated and simplified the section on gene truncation and tandem repeats. I explained the effects of truncation and its influence on antigenic variants of Ehrlichia. I also made the examples of evolution more cohesive with the rest of the article. I explained how evolution leads to an increase in fitness in different species of Ehrlichia. I also simplified the section on Ehrlichia canis and translated it to more common language. I also added necessary citations at the end of each sentence as opposed to the end of the paragraph.
Spreetycakes (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 15:29, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reply To Suggestions  

message: Hi, I was reading through the article, and the section explaining outer membrane protein diversity sounded off. Truncation of protein coding genes alone won't produce additional variants of your protein - if you have a single copy of a gene and it's truncated, then unless the mutation is reversed you have typically lost the function of that gene. What's important for this phenomenon is gene duplication and diversification. In this case, it's not just the diversification of whole genes, but also of fragments remaining in the genome, which can accumulate mutations and then be incorporated back into an expressed copy of that gene through gene conversion. I hope I've made this clear in the text, feel free to comment/fix if not. 
Maonao (talk) 11:31, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Gene conversion and outer membrane protein variants

message: I noticed that some of the papers cited only mention one of the authors, so went through and fixed these citations - for the future, please be careful to include all authors on a paper, rather than just the last one. 
Maonao (talk) 11:31, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations

message: The article Ehrlichiosis (canine) states: "Ehrlichia is found in many parts of the world and was first recognized in Algeria in 1935." I am not sure what "recognized" means here, but this appears to contradict a statement in this article, found in section History: "The organism itself was demonstrated 1925 when it was recognized to be a Rickettsia."  --Lambiam 13:08, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  When was ''Ehrlichia'' first recognized?