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

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

The bacteria-first theory, also known as the reductive hypothesis ... challenged microbiologists' longstanding theories on viral evolution. "These viruses were almost as big as bacteria and ...

Some scientists fear that we are fighting a losing battle against resistant bacteria, which may ultimately lead to people dying from simple infections, for example following operations.

Dead bacteria release an enzyme that breaks down their contents into nutrients for other bacteria, highlighting a novel ...

Mobile DNA elements, such as Insertion Sequence (IS) elements, transposons, integrative elements (e.g. integrative islands), ...

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 ...

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 ...