Tag: horizontal gene transfer

A new review proposes that bacteriophages in the gut virome act as ecological amplifiers, translating environmental disturbances into bacterial reprogramming ...

A new review in Crop Health outlines how insect symbiotic microorganisms can be deployed, engineered, or disrupted to control agricultural ...

A comparative genomics study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa has identified protein clusters enriched in human clinical isolates, including twelve uncharacterized gene ...

Researchers warn that wastewater surveillance of antimicrobial resistance is expanding without the calibration parameters needed to translate gene measurements into ...

ISTA researchers discover that E. coli uses bacteriophages and CRISPR-Cas immunity to facilitate sex-like DNA exchange during starvation, accelerating genetic ...

A new review reveals how sedentary plant-parasitic nematodes forge peptide hormones that mimic the plant's own signals, hijacking receptor pathways ...

Metatranscriptomic sequencing of Colombian mosquitoes and sand flies has uncovered 416 viral sequences dominated by insect-specific viruses, along with active ...

New metagenomic research shows that the earthworm gut microbiome selectively enriches bacterial genes and genera that biodegrade the persistent anthelmintic ...

A non-pathogenic soil bacterium uses its metal-resistant biofilm scaffold to convert toxic selenite into valuable crystalline selenium nanorods at ambient ...

Researchers combined filter mating with nanopore selective sequencing to recover over 600 conjugative plasmid sequences from a full-scale wastewater treatment ...