Tag: horizontal gene transfer

A comparative analysis of 237 bacterial genomes shows that the urease system is architecturally conserved yet evolutionarily flexible, with evidence ...

A large-scale genomic and metagenomic study reveals how antibiotic resistance genes vary across populations, diseases and body sites, with pathogens ...

A new Nature Communications study shows that extensive horizontal gene transfer drives microbial adaptation and diversification in the extreme hadal ...

A genomic survey of thousands of bacterial and archaeal genomes shows that reductive dehalogenase genes split into a highly mobile ...

A new review warns that common non-antibiotic drugs, food additives and environmental chemicals exert antimicrobial effects that reshape the human ...

Researchers reprogrammed the native CRISPR-Cas system of a commercial probiotic bacterium to permanently disable its tetracycline resistance gene while preserving ...

Researchers have developed TrIdent, an open-source R package that automates the classification of transductomics data, revealing that low-abundance gut bacteria ...

A metagenomic study of Chinese forest soils finds that removing leaf litter changes soil nutrients but leaves antibiotic resistance genes ...

A sweeping genomic analysis of more than 43,000 Klebsiella pneumoniae genomes shows that stable maintenance of the pLVPK virulence plasmid ...

A genome-wide CRISPR interference screen has identified the conserved bacterial homologous recombination pathway, and the RecA protein in particular, as ...