Genome analysis of marine microbe reveals a metabolic minimalist
Monday, February 22, 2010 - 11:21
in Biology & Nature
Flightless birds, blind cave shrimp, and other oddities suggest a 'use it or lose it' tendency in evolution. In the microbial world, an unusual marine microorganism appears to have ditched several major metabolic pathways, leaving it with a remarkably reduced set of genes...