Reversing Ecology Reveals Ancient Environments
Monday, March 2, 2009 - 18:35
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have laid the foundation for opening a window to the past using a technique called "reverse ecology." The technique uses genomic data to examine metabolic networks and pulls out proxies for reconstructing bacterial environments millions of years in the past. The work offers clues to the complex evolutionary interplay between organisms such as parasites and hosts.