【Tiny Marine Bacteria to Trace Earth’s History】

Prof. Haiwei Luo from the School of Life Sciences and his team performed genomic analyses of Prochlorococcus and other small marine bacteria and found out that their genomic changes were potentially the result of sudden changes on Earth at that time which drove these primitive marine bacteria to slow down or even stop growing. The study is critical to understanding how microorganisms adapt to marine environments, as well as the evolutionary history of life and the Earth. The results have been published in the latest issue of the internationally leading journal Nature Microbiology.