Balancing the costs of carrying extra metabolic baggage against the benefits of letting other contributors to the environment provide the necessary services Professor Erik Zinser (University of Tennessee) and colleagues attempted to explain why Procholorococcus, which may be the most abundant photosynthetic organism on the planet, had lost oxidative stress reduction genes, during the course [...]
Categories: Environment,Science
Tagged: adaptive gene loss, Black Queen Hypothesis, coevolution, Erik R. Zinser, evolution, evolutionary theory, fitness, J. Jeffrey Morris, oxidative stress, Prochlorococcus, Red Queen Hypothesis, Richard E. Lenski