Joint press release]Written by Gergely János Szöllősi and Merle Naidoo Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history ...

Next, Mattingly wants to test the model on real-life bacteria. "I'd like to work with somebody who does experiments with real bacteria," says Mattingly. "I'm sure there are aspects of a real ...

However, microbiologists do not fully understand how bacteria's genes relate to their life strategies ... genomes that ...