Evolving microbes - 3 (IMAGE)

University of Toronto

Evolving microbes - 3

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Specimens of the clover-like Medicago truncatula plant were each given an initial mixture of two strains of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria Ensifer meliloti to learn what happens to microbes when paired with the same host across multiple generations.

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Bill Cole

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