Researchers find pond bacteria grows faster during the day, suggest a genetic explanation
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
Some of the bacteria that live in ponds, lakes and other freshwater environments grow faster during the day, even though they don't take in sunlight as an energy source, according to researchers at the University of Delaware. Special genes that absorb light could possibly explain this increased activity, as the research team recently described in the Journal of Bacteriology.