Tag: Horizontal gene transfer

A new study identifies 486 small cysteine-rich antifungal proteins found exclusively in fungi and proposes they form a single superfamily ...

A three-year, $1 million National Science Foundation grant will fund Portland State University's eXtreme Virus Lab in its targeted search ...

A new opinion paper argues that microbiome functional diversity is the missing biological link between soil health and One Health, ...

A 2023 survey of surface waters in Huzhou, China, found E. coli carrying antibiotic resistance genes at higher rates than ...

A new review argues that antibiotic failure in biofilm infections often begins with reversible physiological tolerance rather than genetic resistance, ...

A mini review identifies five SOS-independent routes by which prophages can activate and potentially disseminate antibiotic resistance genes without triggering ...

A comparative transcriptome and fitness study found that host-dependent silencing suppresses a 191-kilobase rhizobial megaplasmid, sharply restricting conjugation in Rhizobium ...

A single-patient case report identifies multidrug-resistant Corynebacterium glucuronolyticum in two subcutaneous lesions in an immunocompetent man.

A genomic survey of 109 Streptococcus thermophilus strains shows that mobile genomic islands carry many of the traits linked to ...

A comprehensive review in IMA Fungus shows that fungal defense mechanisms and antifungal resistance evolve across clinical, agricultural, and environmental ...

A large-scale genomic survey of the medicinal fungus Cordyceps militaris reveals dynamic mitochondrial intron turnover, ongoing mitochondrial-to-nuclear DNA transfer, and ...

A comprehensive review of 167 studies shows that pharmaceutical and clinical effluents are transforming aquatic ecosystems into hotspots where multidrug ...

Single-molecule experiments reveal that one SauUSI restriction enzyme dimer from Staphylococcus aureus acts as an ATP-driven motor that loops along ...

Researchers have characterized the first plasmid from the halophilic bacterial genus Halovibrio, uncovering a mosaic structure shaped by horizontal gene ...

A new PLOS Biology study shows that recombination, not changing selection pressures, largely explains the declining dN/dS ratios observed in ...

Deep genomic sequencing of the Tsimane and Hadza peoples reveals that hundreds of gut bacterial species co-migrated with humans across ...

A new PLOS Ecosystems opinion article argues that free-living amoebae, long ignored in climate and public health surveillance, may be ...

A large metagenomic study of Iowa homes finds that bedroom dust contains more antimicrobial resistance genes when residences sit closer ...

A new synthesis in the Journal of Systematics and Evolution outlines how endosymbionts drive cryptic speciation in insects through ecological ...

A new review in Microbial Ecology explains how the same biosynthetic gene clusters that make actinomycetes valuable symbionts can also ...