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Scientists Discover Bacteria Trapped in Endless Evolutionary Time Loop


Lake Mendota in Wisconsin is transformed by the changing seasons – covered by ice in winter, and by algae in summer – and a new study shows how these cyclical shifts are putting the lake's bacteria into evolutionary loops.

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