Sentences with phrase «study microbial evolution»

Besides its potential for future disease prevention, the researchers think their mutation prevention system could more immediately be used to help the biotech industry protect large - scale cultures from acquiring mutations that render them unproductive or prone to contaminations, and to study microbial evolution.

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At Ames, Farmer turned back to his grad - school interests in paleobiology and sedimentology and, combining them with his interest in microbial communities, found his research niche: the study of microbial biosediments and their relation to early biosphere evolution.

By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution - researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have found that the relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but that modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond to microbial invaders.