The microscopic alliance between algae and bacteria offers rare, step-by-step snapshots of how bacteria lose genes and adapt to increasing host dependence. This is shown by a new study led by ...

The microscopic alliance between algae and bacteria offers rare, step-by-step snapshots of how bacteria lose genes and adapt to increasing host ...

For prokaryotes, evolution can take place through horizontal gene transfer (HGT for short), where genetic information is directly shared between bacteria. This process allows individual organisms, and ...

Lines of bacterial genome sequences are made to evolve independently by introducing high-activity insertion sequences, each simulating decades of evolution in the wild in just weeks.

Did bacteria spark evolution of multicellular life?Triggered by the presence of bacteria, the single-celled choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta divides and aggregates with its sisters to form a ...

How fast does evolution occur? In certain bacteria, it can happen almost instantaneously, a UB molecular biologist has discovered. Mark R. O’Brian, professor and chair of the Department of ...

Do bacteria acquire mutations randomly, or do mutations arise adaptively as a direct response to environmental pressures? This question has wide implications in areas ranging from evolution to the ...

The type of genetic exchange and mode of evolution outlined above is common for bacteria in terrestrial habitats like soil and in the oceans. But in the deep sea, bacteria can also be found at ...

Welcome to Humanville, a lively metropolis of over a hundred trillion bacteria living in and around your body. Like many cities, most of Humanville’s denizens live in its centre – the bowels ...