What is the molecular clock? Levels of molecular variation could be used, in principle, to estimate divergence times, serving as evolutionary "clocks" that "tick" at different rates. Subsequent ...

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Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

Co-author Dr Tom Williams, Associate Professor in Molecular Evolution at the University of Bristol, said: “Our work shows that modelling microbial traits from their genomes using machine learning ...