Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones and are not like big animals that leave clear signs in the ...

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 ...

An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine (4mC) ...

This has made it very hard for scientists to establish a timeline of their early evolution. But with the help of machine learning, we have been able to fill in many of the details. Our new research, ...

Bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation: A timeline built from genomic, fossil, and chemical data. Colors show oxygen states: anaerobic (blue), aerobic (red), and proportion of aerobic lineages in ...

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.