If you still remember that “Dear King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti,” you’ll likely also recall the corresponding taxonomic ranks of biology: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, ...

A new scientific review has uncovered how complex microbial communities, including those in the human gut and the natural environment, act as powerful engines that drive the evolution and spread of ...

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial evolution over billions of years – using machine ...

EBI researchers have changed our view of 4 billion years of microbial evolution. Christos Ouzounis and colleagues have gained intriguing quantitative insights into how gene families are transferred, ...

Comparing genome sequences of microbes is one of the most popular ways of tracking and understanding their evolution. The genomes of microbes differ fundamentally from many animal and plant ones. They ...

Microbial evolution is a crucial area of crop science research, but this aspect may not be evident. Several bacteria play a key role in defending crops from pathogens and supporting plants to absorb ...