Victoria Stern | Nov 3, 2009 | 2 min read
Researchers for the first time have tracked the specific genetic mutations -- occurring over just a few generations -- that allow bacteria to respond to environmental changes, they report online in Nature today (November 4). Image of Pseudomonas fluorescens Image: Courtesy of Hubertus Beaumont"We showed how evolution happens in real time," said linkurl:Hubertus Beaumont,;http://www.biomedexperts.com/Profile.bme/94433/Hubertus_J_E_Beaumont a biologist from Leiden University in the Netherlands