Sewage water bacteria helps fill 'missing link' in early evolution

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 07:00 in Biology & Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- A common group of bacteria found in acid bogs and sewage treatment plants has provided scientists with evidence of a ‘missing link’ in one of the most important steps in the evolution of life on earth - the emergence of cells with a nucleus containing DNA (eukaryotic cells).

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