Horizontal genetic transfer (HGT) has played an important role in bacterial evolution at least
since the origins of the bacterial divisions, and HGT still facilitates the origins of bacterial …

Much of natural product chemistry concerns a group of compounds known as secondary
metabolites. These low-molecular-weight metabolites often have potent physiological …

Obligate insect–bacterium nutritional mutualism is among the most sophisticated forms of
symbiosis, wherein the host and the symbiont are integrated into a coherent biological entity …

Comparative genomics demonstrated that the chromosomes from bacteria and their viruses
(bacteriophages) are coevolving. This process is most evident for bacterial pathogens where …

The number of completely sequenced bacterial genomes has been growing fast. There are
computer methods available for finding genes but yet there is a need for more accurate …

Recent findings demonstrate that multiple mRNAs are co-regulated by one or more
sequence-specific RNA-binding proteins that orchestrate their splicing, export, stability …

▪ Abstract Comparative analysis of bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic genomes indicates
that a significant fraction of the genes in the prokaryotic genomes have been subject to …

▪ Abstract It has been a decade since multicellularity was proposed as a general bacterial
trait. Intercellular communication and multicellular coordination are now known to be …

Previously, we presented evidence that it is possible to predict functional coupling between
genes based on conservation of gene clusters between genomes. With the rapid increase in …

There are∼ 1031 phage in the biosphere, making them the most abundant biological
entities on the planet. Despite their great numbers and ubiquitous presence, very little is …