Bacteria must make evolutionary size vs. function tradeoffs
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 07:10
in Biology & Nature
How small can the smallest organism possibly be? Is there a limit to how large an organism can be? These fundamental questions of biology span the fields of evolution, ecology, and astrobiology and are important to understanding how life may have arisen on earth. In a new paper published in the journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology, SFI Omidyar Fellow Chris Kempes and co-authors explore these questions at the microscopic level.