By using the planet-wide geological event of the Great Oxidation Event effectively as a "fossil" calibration point, our ...

Scientists have used this oxygen surge and how microbes adapted to it to map out bacterial evolution. In a study published in Science, researchers from the Model-Based Evolutionary Genomics Unit at ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.

The results really surprised us. They provide an excellent explanation of an important aspect of bacterial evolution: The ...

By using the planet-wide geological event of the Great Oxidation Event effectively as a "fossil" calibration point, our approach produced a detailed timeline of bacterial evolution. Combining ...

Professor Pål Johnsen, co-senior author at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway, said: “Bacterial evolution and adaptation often depend on plasmids to support the transfer of genes, and are shaped ...

Bacterial evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of bacteria over multiple generations. It occurs through mechanisms including natural selection and genetic drift, and can ...

An international collaboration between four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published ...

Certain antibiotic-resistant infections could be treated with precision medicine in the future, thanks to a new resource mapping plasmids the ultimate vehicle of rapid bacterial evolution.

By using the planet-wide geological event of the Great Oxidation Event effectively as a “fossil” calibration point, our approach produced a detailed timeline of bacterial evolution.