Bacterial Gene Transfer Gets Sexier Mycobacterium smegmatis can donate larger portions of its genome to other bacteria than previously thought, approaching the level of gene shuffling seen in sexual ...

In a recent study combining machine learning and bioinformatics, a new computational method was developed for modelling gene transfers between different lineages of a bacterial population or even ...

Researchers used new, long-read genetic sequencing technology to show that there are bacterial genomes within the genome of one species of fruit fly. This discovery seems to be the largest known ...

Gene transfer between coexisting bacteria occurred, shown as skinny arrows. However, random mutation independently produced a green and a red type bacterium suited for a different niche (thick arrow).

Gene transfer on the fungal highway Researchers show how fungi can improve the genetic makeup of bacteria and their potential for the breakdown of harmful substances Date: December 14, 2016 Source ...

"Our study shows that fungal hyphae not only provide soil bacteria with an excellent infrastructure, but also a potential hot spot for bacterial horizontal gene transfer. This previously unknown ...

The only explanation for this degree of bacteria-vertebrate HGT was that it occurred in the germ line, which suggested the worrying possibility that bacterial infection or exposure to genetically ...

Horizontal Gene Transfer (or HGT) is the process of an organism acquiring another organism’s DNA, usually through absorbing the ‘target’ organism, resulting in an endosymbiotic relationship.

Past studies of the bacteria E. coli revealed the microbes underwent a process known as horizontal gene transfer, in which one bacterium receives a bit of DNA from another bacterium before forming ...

Our approach mimics the natural bacterial gene transfer process to directly liberate and amplify entire biosynthetic gene clusters within the native bacterial cell, granting access to previously ...

Bacteria evolve rapidly in the human gut by sharing genetic elements with each other. Bacteriodales is a prolific order of gut bacteria that trade hundreds of genetic elements. Little is known ...