Rubber is an essential part of our daily lives with thousands of rubber-based products being
made and used. Natural rubber undergoes chemical processes and structural modifications …

Sneathia is an emerging pathogen implicated in adverse reproductive and perinatal
outcomes. Although scarce, recent data suggest that vaginally residing Sneathia becomes …

CRISPR-Cas systems provide bacteria and archaea with an adaptive immune system that
targets foreign DNA. However, the xenogenic nature of immunity provided by CRISPR-Cas …

Background GC pairs are generally more stable than AT pairs; GC-rich genomes were
proposed to be more adapted to high temperatures than AT-rich genomes. Previous studies …

Microbial organisms inhabit virtually all environments and encompass a vast biological
diversity. The pangenome concept aims to facilitate an understanding of diversity within …

The impact of microplastics on antibiotic resistance has attracted widespread attention.
However, previous studies primarily focused on the effects of individual microplastics. In …

Insight into the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) is central to any phylogeny-based
reconstruction of early eukaryotic evolution. Increasing amounts of data enable such …

Background: Bim is a Bcl-2 homology 3 (BH3)-only proteins, a group of pro-apoptotic
proteins involved in physiological and pathological conditions. Both the overexpression and …

Prophages affect bacterial fitness on multiple levels. These include bacterial infectivity, toxin
secretion, virulence regulation, surface modification, immune stimulation and evasion and …

Microbial genomes have highly variable gene content, and the evolutionary history of
microbial populations is shaped by gene gain and loss mediated by horizontal gene transfer …