The Inhabited Body — Primer Bibliography

References for companion primer chapters, sorted by chapter. Reference identifiers use the format [REF:shortname] for in-text citation.

Primer Ch. 1 — The Living World: Life's Major Domains

• [REF:woese1977] Woese, C.R. & Fox, G.E. (1977). Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: the primary kingdoms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 74(11), 5088–5090. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.74.11.5088

• [REF:woese1990] Woese, C.R., Kandler, O. & Wheelis, M.L. (1990). Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 87(12), 4576–4579. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576

• [REF:louca2019] Louca, S., Mazel, F., Doebeli, M. & Parfrey, L.W. (2019). A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity. PLOS Biology, 17(2), e3000106. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000106

• [REF:locey2016] Locey, K.J. & Lennon, J.T. (2016). Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(21), 5970–5975. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1521291113

• [REF:spang2015] Spang, A. et al. (2015). Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature, 521(7551), 173–179. DOI: 10.1038/nature14447

• [REF:zheludev2024] Zheludev, I.N. et al. (2024). Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes. Cell, 187(23), 6521–6536. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.09.033

• [REF:lederberg2001] Lederberg, J. & McCray, A.T. (2001). 'Ome sweet 'omics — a genealogical treasury of words. The Scientist, 15(7), 8.

• [REF:sender2016] Sender, R., Fuchs, S. & Milo, R. (2016). Revised estimates for the number of human and bacteria cells in the body. Cell, 164(3), 337–340. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.013

Primer Ch. 2 — The Cell: Life's Basic Unit

• [REF:hooke1665] Hooke, R. (1665). Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. London: Royal Society.

• [REF:schwann1839] Schwann, T. (1839). Mikroskopische Untersuchungen über die Uebereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen. Berlin: Verlag der Sander'schen Buchhandlung. [English translation: Microscopical Researches into the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Animals and Plants, 1847.]

• [REF:virchow1855] Virchow, R. (1855). Cellular-Pathologie. Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin, 8(1), 3–39. DOI: 10.1007/BF01935312

• [REF:gram1884] Gram, H.C. (1884). Ueber die isolirte Färbung der Schizomyceten in Schnitt- und Trockenpräparaten. Fortschritte der Medicin, 2, 185–189.

• [REF:sagan1967] Sagan, L. [later Margulis] (1967). On the origin of mitosing cells. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 14(3), 225–274. DOI: 10.1016/0022-5193(67)90079-390079-3)

• [REF:margulis1970] Margulis, L. (1970). Origin of Eukaryotic Cells. New Haven: Yale University Press.

• [REF:shih2006] Shih, Y.-L. & Rothfield, L. (2006). The bacterial cytoskeleton. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 70(3), 729–754. DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00017-06

• [REF:bianconi2013] Bianconi, E. et al. (2013). An estimation of the number of cells in the human body. Annals of Human Biology, 40(6), 463–471. DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2013.807878

• [REF:blattner1997] Blattner, F.R. et al. (1997). The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12. Science, 277(5331), 1453–1462. DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5331.1453

• [REF:international2004] International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (2004). Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome. Nature, 431(7011), 931–945. DOI: 10.1038/nature03001

• [REF:alberts2022] Alberts, B. et al. (2022). Molecular Biology of the Cell, 7th edition. New York: W.W. Norton.

Additional primer chapters will be appended as they are drafted.