Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MolecularClock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MolecularClock</span></a> analysis shows <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> used oxygen long before widespread photosynthesis<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-molecular-clock-analysis-bacteria-oxygen.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-04-molecula</span><span class="invisible">r-clock-analysis-bacteria-oxygen.html</span></a></p><p>A geological timescale for bacterial <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> and oxygen adaptation <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ADP1853" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e.ADP1853</span></a></p><p>"the earliest aerobic transition occurred in an ancestor of photosynthetic <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/cyanobacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanobacteria</span></a>, indicating that the ability to utilize trace amounts of oxygen may have allowed the development of genes central to oxygenic <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/photosynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photosynthesis</span></a>."</p>