Add MS 86693

Some items are undated.

Folder marked 'Mycobacter Grant'. Includes:

• Contract of Agreement between the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and University Sussex for 'an integrated approach to the application of M. bovis genotyping for the control of TB in Great Britain'. Copy.

Folder marked 'TB Grant etc'.

• Letter to Maynard Smith from Peter Durr (Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge); 28 Jun 2000.
• Email from Debbie Bryner (Research Grants and Contracts Office, University of Sussex) to Tessa Ellis (University of Sussex); 13 Jul 2000. Email from Noel H. Smith to Tessa Ellis; 17 Jul 2000, includes email from Noel to Peter Durr; 15 Jul 2000.
• Email from Noel Smith to Rosemary Sheppard (John Maynard Smith’s secretary). Includes a CV for Noel H. Smith; 13 Jul 2000.
• Email from Noel Smith to Rosemary Sheppard; 14 Jul 2000. Includes a list of expenses for Maynard Smith and Noel Smith.
• Typewritten list of expenses for Maynard Smith and Noel Smith.
• Typewritten document showing scientific justification for the project.
• CV for Maynard Smith.
• Printed document for the School of Biological Sciences school procedures for grants applications and awards.
• Printed guidance note 1 by University of Sussex for externally funded research applications.
• Information from the internet about bovine tuberculosis.
• Diagram showing the integrated molecular epidemiology project structure.
• Flow diagram showing the organisation of M. bovis molecular epidemiology project showing practical outputs.

Folder marked 'VNTR'.

• Computer printout for 'VNTR.bas'; Jun 2002.
• Handwritten notes relating to 'thoughts on VNTR variation within a spoligotype'; 1 Jul 2002.
• Hand drawn diagrams and handwritten notes.
• Hand drawn diagram and notes relating to 'spoligotype 9'.
• Computer generated graphs and printouts relating to 'spoligotype 9'.
• Computer generated graph showing 'strains of spoligotype 9 subjects to VNTR in a year of isolation'.
• Handwritten notes relating to 'spoligotype 17'.
• Handwritten notes relating to 'can numbers be experienced by ONE hitch-hiking event?'
• Handwritten notes relating to logic of 'age' argument.

Loose items

• Ivica Tamas, Lisa Klasson, Björn Canbäck, A. Kristina Näslund, Ann-Sofie Eriksson, Jennifer J. Wernegreen, Jonas P. Sandström, Nancy A. Moran, Siv G. E. Andersson, '50 million years of genomic stasis in endosymbiotic bacteria', Science, 296 (2002), 2376-9.
• Howard Ochman, Susannah Elwyn and Nancy A. Moran, 'Calibrating bacterial evolution', Proceedings of the National academy of Sciences USA, 96 (1999), 12638-12643.
• Edward J Feil., Mark C. Enright and Brian G. Spratt, 'Estimating the relative contributions of mutation and recombination to clonal diversification: a comparison between Neisseria meningitides and Streptococcus pneumoniae', Research in Microbiology, 151 (2000), 465-9.

Folder marked 'Coalescence & allele distributions'.

• Letter to Maynard Smith from Ed[ward J. Feil] (Department Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath), attached is a computer generated graph; 3 Oct 2002.
• Handwritten notes and figures relating to allelic distributions: MLST; 28 Sep 2002.
• Handwritten notes and diagrams relating to allelic distributions; 10 Oct 2002.

Folder marked 'Bacterial "species" and "types"'.

• Letter from Edward J. Feil to Maynard Smith; 20 Nov 2001. Includes a letter to Science; 7 Nov 2001.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Edward J. Feil relating to Cohan; 13 Jun 2002. Attached is article by Frederick M.Cohan, 'What are bacterial species?', Annual Review of Microbiology, 56 (2002), 457-487.
• Letter from Maynard Smith to Edward J. Feil; 14 Aug 2002.
• Letter from Maynard Smith to Bill and Christopher; 13 Aug undated. Attached are some photocopied notes, and handwritten notes relating to 'model of "infection"'.
• Handwritten notes and figures.