Journal Article Review, he

Choose one article from a primary

scientific literature source which uses a microbe as a model

organism/system and write a comprehensive summary of the study that

answers the following questions

(A/B/C/D/E):

NOTE: MANY FREE ARTICLES MAY BE OBTAINED FROM

A. Why did the scientists perform the study (i.e. description of

background)?

B. What was the hypothesis (or hypotheses) under investigation?

C. What were the major results and did they support or negate the

hypothesis? Which key techniques were used to achieve these results?

D. Why are the results significant and do they point to further/future

studies? In other words, why does this article matter and what should

or could be done next?

E. Why did you choose this particular article to review? Was it interesting,

informative, clearly written, or none of the above?