Talk:Rickettsia rickettsii

message: Hi, I am Cheungd (talk) and I edited a part of this article. 
I looked over and took out some irrelevant information about one of the founders, Howard Ricketts. There was an excessive amount of information about his schooling, and I found that irrelevant. Those reading may simply look at the link for Ricketts to learn more about his education and life. Additionally, I fixed various grammatical errors throughout the article, rearranged information within the article, and deleted repeating information. Finally, I edited the "evolution" section of the article. Because the section only really hinted at evolutionary principles, I changed the article heading to the "influence of climate change", which I found more appropriate. For this section I noticed a use of a primary source, and i believe a review article would be more appropriate to ensure that the data is accurate and reliable data. 
Please review my work and edit if you see fit!
Cheungd (talk)
For transmission, I added a few details that may be evolutionarily relevant. The fact that more males are killed as opposed to females could affect what diseases are present in the population, the alleles present and so on. I think it would be wise to expand upon this and further discuss why it happens. Cheesecakefantasy (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 14:03, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
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message: feedback to chungd: I agreed that there was too much arbitrary information in much of the article. In order to fix this I went ahead and cut out everything I found was too advanced or useless for this specific topic. For the evolution section, a agree that the information in the section was too research based and not very pertinent to the article. To fix this I cut out the section completely and added an "around the world" section that hits on how the disease is more prevalent in some places over others and why that is very briefly. 2015evolution7 (talk) 20:39, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  revisions to feedback 

message: I think this article has been revised well so far, did however change the sentence structure since one of the sentences was a run on. 
"Rickettsia have been found to distort the sex ratio of their hosts by eradicating males and undergoing pathogenesis. This is done primarily via a horizontal gene transfer."
Also, you added some vital information towards the end of your contribution regarding multiple modes of transmission which ensures the bacterias fitness, but I think the evolution part of your topic could be expanded a little more. If you find more information about how the fittest genes have survived and how often, I would definitely add it. Also, add an example of one of the virulence factors that has allowed the survival of this infection. 
Evo1995 (talk) 12:42, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
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message: Hello over the past 3-4 months I 2015evolution7 (talk) 16:53, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Final contributions

message: — Assignment last updated by Nina717 (talk) 13:41, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: MIBO 3500 Introduction to Microbiology

message: Greetings Graham Beards! 
We see there have been many edits regarding this article and edits to capitalization. Also, we have noticed there have been some changes with content in general. For future edits regarding the information, we would love if the talk page could be utilized to discuss the changes as most of these were researched points or were correct uses of grammar.  Thank you! Ebathens (talk) 13:50, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
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message: — Assignment last updated by Hannah Yousuf (talk) 20:10, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: MIBO 3500 Introduction to Microbiology