Natural transformation is a mechanism that enables competent bacteria to acquire naked,
exogenous DNA from the environment. It is a key process that facilitates the dissemination of …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an environmental bacterium and an opportunistic human
pathogen. It is also a well-established model organism to study bacterial adaptation to …

Efficient colonization of mucosal surfaces is essential for opportunistic pathogens like
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but how bacteria collectively and individually adapt to optimize …

Generation of genetic diversity is a prerequisite for bacterial evolution and adaptation. Short-
term diversification and selection within populations is, however, largely uncharacterised, as …

Current models of biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa propose that (i) planktonic
cells become surface associated in a monolayer,(ii) surface-associated cells form …

Adaptation of bacterial pathogens to a permanently host‐associated lifestyle by means of
deletion or acquisition of genetic material is usually examined through comparison of …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces extracellular DNA which functions as a cell‐to‐cell
interconnecting matrix component in biofilms. Comparison of extracellular DNA and …

The large Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenicity island PAPI-1 of strain PA14 is a cluster
of 108 genes that encode a number of virulence features. We demonstrate that, in a …

Background Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a model organism for the study of quorum
sensing, biofilm formation, and also leading cause of nosocomial infections in immune …

Temperate phages drive genomic diversification in bacterial pathogens. Phage-derived
sequences are more common in pathogenic than nonpathogenic taxa and are associated …