In Lake Mendota, located in Wisconsin, bacteria experience an extraordinary cycle of evolution. These bacteria alter their ...

In the winter, Lake Mendota is covered in ice, but when this thaws in summer, it’s engulfed by algae. These cyclical shifts ...

An international collaboration has achieved an important breakthrough in understanding the genetic mechanisms that allow bacteria to ... a lucky "Friday afternoon" experiment, which was done ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Unlike another famous bacterial evolution experiment at UT, the Long-Term Evolution Experiment, Rohwer and Baker's study involved bacterial evolution under complex and constantly changing ...

influencing the overall adaptive strategy of the bacteria. Another important study utilized the long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) with E. coli to investigate the transcriptional and ...

Unlike another famous bacterial evolution experiment at UT, the Long-Term Evolution Experiment, Rohwer and Baker’s study involved bacterial evolution under complex and constantly changing conditions ...

Once again, we’re here to tell you that evolution is not always linear. In Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota, for example, bacteria evolve ... of Texas at Austin in the lab of co-author Brett Baker ...