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'''Mark L. Wheelis''' is an American [[microbiologist]]. Wheelis is currently a professor in the College of Biological Sciences, [[University of California, Davis]].<ref name="UC Davis - 2011 - Mark L. Wheelis">{{cite web|url=http://biosci3.ucdavis.edu/FacultyAndResearch/FacultyProfile.aspx?FacultyID=260|title=Mark L. Wheelis|date=2011|publisher=[[University of California, Davis]]|accessdate=3 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413132255/http://biosci3.ucdavis.edu/FacultyAndResearch/FacultyProfile.aspx?FacultyID=260|archive-date=13 April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Carl Woese]] and [[Otto Kandler]] with Wheelis wrote the important [[Scholarly paper#Scholarly paper|paper]] ''[[Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya]]'' that proposed a change from the [[Two-empire system]] of [[Prokaryotes]] and [[Eukaryotes]] to the [[Three-domain system]] of the [[Domain (biology)|domains]] Eukaryota, [[Bacteria]] and [[Archaea]].<ref name="Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg - 18Oct2010 - Prokaryotic Small RNA Biology ">{{cite web|url=http://www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/randau/research.html|title=Prokaryotic Small RNA Biology|last=Randau|first=Lennart|date=18 October 2010|work=[[Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology|Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg]]|publisher=[[Max Planck Society]]|accessdate=3 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902181725/http://www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/randau/research.html|archive-date=2 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
Wheelis's research interests include the history of [[biological warfare]].<ref name="UC Davis - 2011 - Mark L. Wheelis"/> He co-authored (with [[Larry Gonick]]) ''The Cartoon Guide to Genetics'' (1983). Wheelis provided the scientific knowledge and text, while Gonick contributed the illustrations and humor.<ref>Larry Gonick & Mark Wheelis, ''The Cartoon Guide to Genetics'', Longman Higher Education, 1983, 216 pp. {{ISBN|978-0064604161}}.</ref>