Robert Smith

@SGribaldo Fantastic article! Big congratulations to everyone involved :)

Our results provide new information on one of the most important cellular transitions in the evolution of bacteria and open the way toward replaying it in the lab. Congratulations to all authors. End of thread 9/9

This work builds on our recent hypothesis that the ancestor of Bacteria was a diderm and that the outer membrane (OM) may have been lost multiple times independently in the Terrabacteria, including the Firmicutes nature.com/articles/s4155… Why? And how did it happen? 2/9

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