Bacteria do age though; even seemingly-symmetrical divisions yield one “parent” bacterium that ages and dies.
Do you have a reference on that? I’m familiar with how it works with budding yeast, but I’ve never heard of anything like that in a prokaryote.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0030058
This is the source I found. It’s fairly old, so if you’ve found something that supersedes it I’d be interested.
Oh wow, that’s really neat. I doubt that it has any relevance to the aging mechanisms of multicellular organisms, but very cool in its own right. And definitely not transposon-mediated.
Do you have a reference on that? I’m familiar with how it works with budding yeast, but I’ve never heard of anything like that in a prokaryote.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0030058
This is the source I found. It’s fairly old, so if you’ve found something that supersedes it I’d be interested.
Oh wow, that’s really neat. I doubt that it has any relevance to the aging mechanisms of multicellular organisms, but very cool in its own right. And definitely not transposon-mediated.