Virtually all plants and animals, including humans, are home to symbiotic microorganisms.
Symbiotic interactions can be neutral, harmful or have beneficial effects on the host …

Whole-genome sequencing has opened the way for investigating the dynamics and
genomic evolution of bacterial pathogens during the colonization and infection of humans …

Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is a major human pathogen producing
structurally diverse capsular polysaccharides. Widespread use of highly successful …

Ag/Ag@ AgCl/ZnO hybrid nanostructures are embedded in a hydrogel by a simple two-step
technique. The Ag/Ag@ AgCl nanostructures are assembled in the hydrogel via ultraviolet …

Fully exploiting the wealth of data in current bacterial population genomics datasets requires
synthesizing and integrating different types of analysis across millions of base pairs in …

The emergence of new sequencing technologies has facilitated the use of bacterial whole
genome alignments for evolutionary studies and outbreak analyses. These datasets, of …

Abstract Background Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are recognized as hotspots for
horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Despite our …

Whole-genome sequences are now available for many microbial species and clades,
however existing whole-genome alignment methods are limited in their ability to perform …

Recombination is an important evolutionary force in bacteria, but it remains challenging to
reconstruct the imports that occurred in the ancestry of a genomic sample. Here we present …

Rapid molecular typing of bacterial pathogens is critical for public health epidemiology,
surveillance and infection control, yet routine use of whole genome sequencing (WGS) for …