Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is arguably the most conspicuous feature of bacterial
evolution. Evidence for HGT is found in most bacterial genomes. Although HGT can …

Bacteria acquire novel DNA through horizontal gene transfer (HGT), a process that enables
an organism to rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions, provides a competitive …

The field of microbiome research has evolved rapidly over the past few decades and has
become a topic of great scientific and public interest. As a result of this rapid growth in …

Although it is generally accepted that phages drive bacterial evolution, how these dynamics
play out in the wild remains poorly understood. We found that susceptibility to viral killing in …

Studying within-species variation has traditionally been limited to culturable bacterial
isolates and low-resolution microbial community fingerprinting. Metagenomic sequencing …

Methodological advances over the past two decades have propelled plant microbiome
research, allowing the field to comprehensively test ideas proposed over a century ago and …

ABSTRACT A global rise in antimicrobial resistance among pathogenic bacteria has proved
to be a major public health threat, with the rate of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections …

From the homeostasis of human health to the cycling of Earth's elements, microbial activities
underlie environmental, medical and industrial processes. These activities occur in chemical …

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been successfully applied to treat recurrent
Clostridium difficile infection in humans, but a precise method to measure which bacterial …

Microbial communities are shaped by viral predators. Yet, resolving which viruses (phages)
and bacteria are interacting is a major challenge in the context of natural levels of microbial …