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 ...

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

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 ...

The bacteria is notoriously drug-resistant, and several antibiotic treatments are no longer effective in treating it. If evolution makes bacteria like this more invulnerable, prevention and ...

His 1987 review, "Bacterial evolution," published in Microbiological Reviews (51:221-71, 1987), comprehensively summarizes work done over the previous 10 years on the new phylogenetic categorization ...

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.

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.