Evolution in a test tube: These bacteria survive on deadly copper surfaces

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Jan 13, 2021, 10:32 am435 pts
The descendants of regular wild-type bacteria can evolve to survive for a long time on metallic copper surfaces that would usually kill them within a few minutes. An international research team led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology was able to…

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Evolution in a test tube: These bacteria survive on deadly copper surfaces

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