Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Lake <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> evolve like clockwork with the seasons<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-lake-bacteria-evolve-clockwork-seasons.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-01-lake-bac</span><span class="invisible">teria-evolve-clockwork-seasons.html</span></a> paper: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01888-3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41564-024</span><span class="invisible">-01888-3</span></a></p><p>"over the course of a year, most individual species of bacteria in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/LakeMendota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LakeMendota</span></a> rapidly evolve, apparently in response to dramatically changing seasons. Gene variants would rise and fall over generations, yet hundreds of separate species would return, almost fully, to near copies of what they had been genetically prior to a thousand or so generations of evolutionary pressures."</p>