Chronic infections caused by microbial biofilms represent an important clinical challenge.
The recalcitrance of microbial biofilms to antimicrobials and to the immune system is a major …

Most bacteria attach to biotic or abiotic surfaces and are embedded in a complex matrix
which is known as biofilm. Biofilm formation is especially worrisome in clinical settings as it …

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 …

Bacterial conjugation, also referred to as bacterial sex, is a major horizontal gene transfer
mechanism through which DNA is transferred from a donor to a recipient bacterium by direct …

Antimicrobial resistance constitutes one of the major challenges facing humanity in the
Twenty-First century. The spread of resistant pathogens has been such that the possibility of …

Biofilm formation is an integral part of the microbial life cycle in nature. In food processing
environments, bacterial transmissions occur primarily through raw or undercooked foods …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) drives microbial adaptation but is often under the control of
mobile genetic elements (MGEs) whose interests are not necessarily aligned with those of …

Biofilm is a mode of living employed by many pathogenic and environmental microbes to
proliferate as multicellular aggregates on inert inanimate or biological substrates. Several …

The exchange of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) facilitates the spread of functional traits
including antimicrobial resistance within bacterial communities. Tools to spatially map MGEs …

Plasmids are extrachromosomal DNA elements that can be found throughout bacteria, as
well as in other domains of life. Nonetheless, the evolutionary processes underlying the …