Balance between growth and adaptability shapes microbial success, evolution – Phys.org

One of the foremost challenges in biology is the quest to uncover the underlying rules that determine how biological organisms behave in different situations. Even seemingly simple questions, such as why bacteria grow at a certain rate and why there is a tremendous variation in growth rate across species in different environments, have remained unclear.
A new study published in Nature in July by scientists from Harvard Medical School, ETH Zurich and the University of California, San Diego now s…

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