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Evolving Bacteria

Submitted by Doug Lederman on November 19, 2012 - 3:00am

In today’s Academic Minute, Michigan State University's Zachary Blount examines how scientists have observed bacteria evolve new capabilities over thousands of generations. Blount is a postdoctoral researcher in the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action [1] at Michigan State. Find out more about him here [2]. A transcript of this podcast can be found here [3].

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Academic Minute [4]
File: 
ACE 11-19-12 Michigan State U - Evolving Bacteria.mp3 [5]
Source URL: http://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2012/11/19/evolving-bacteria

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[1] http://beacon-center.org/
[2] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7417/full/nature11514.html
[3] http://www.wamc.org/post/dr-zachary-blount-michigan-state-university-evolving-bacteria
[4] http://www.insidehighered.com/academic-minute
[5] http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/ACE%2011-19-12%20Michigan%20State%20U%20-%20Evolving%20Bacteria.mp3