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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03061-x
Levy, A. (2019). How evolution builds genes from scratch. Nature, 574(7778), 314–316. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03061-x
How evolution builds genes from scratch
Scientists long assumed that new genes appear when evolution tinkers with old ones. It turns out that natural selection is much more creative.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03866-5
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One particular gut microbe is quite the coffee fiend. Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus was up to eight times more abundant in coffee drinkers than in non-drinkers. In a culture dish, the bacteria grew faster when fed coffee of any kind — brewed or instant, caffeinated or decaffeinated — than when fed no coffee.
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313581121
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04800-3
Great analysis of ancient (microbial) DNA!
