Mine study demonstrates how quickly bacteria can evolve
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 07:01
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) -- Two Earth and environmental scientists from the University of California have found that by observing bacteria in situ in an abandoned mine in northern California, they have, as they describe in their paper published in the journal Science, been able to observe how quickly a single nearly undisturbed species of bacteria has evolved in the wild.