Quorum sensing (QS), a type of chemical communication, allows bacteria to sense and
coordinate activities in natural biofilm communities using N-acyl homoserine lactones …

Highlights•Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers hinder sustainable agricultural intensification.•
Nitrogen fixation in cereal crops is a feasible and sustainable alternative.•Recent advances …

The routine use of genomics for disease surveillance provides the opportunity for high-
resolution bacterial epidemiology. Current whole-genome clustering and multilocus typing …

Adaptation by natural selection depends on the rates, effects and interactions of many
mutations, making it difficult to determine what proportion of mutations in an evolving lineage …

How new functions arise de novo is a fundamental question in evolution. We studied de
novo evolution of promoters in Escherichia coli by replacing the lac promoter with various …

Large-scale mining and analysis of bacterial datasets contribute to the comprehensive
characterization of complex microbial dynamics within a microbiome and among different …

The use of whole-genome phylogenetic analysis has revolutionized our understanding of
the evolution and spread of many important bacterial pathogens due to the high resolution …

Although microorganisms are known to dominate Earth's biospheres and drive
biogeochemical cycling, little is known about the geographic distributions of microbial …

Metagenomic approaches are now commonly used in microbial ecology to study microbial
communities in more detail, including many strains that cannot be cultivated in the …

Background With the exponential growth of publicly available genome sequences,
pangenome analyses have provided increasingly complete pictures of genetic diversity for …