Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an environmental microorganism and a causative agent of
diverse acute and chronic, biofilm‐associated infections. Advancing research‐based …

When grown as a biofilm in laboratory flow chambers Pseudomonas aeruginosa can
develop mushroom‐shaped multicellular structures consisting of distinct subpopulations in …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is central to microbial evolution. It contributes to the diversity
of acquired traits, which are otherwise not available through gene transfer from parent to …

Many bacterial species are capable of biofilm growth, in which cells live and replicate within
multicellular community groups. Recent work shows that biofilm growth by a wide variety of …

The survival of bacteria in nature is greatly enhanced by their ability to grow within surface-
associated communities called biofilms. Commonly, biofilms generate proliferations of …

Bacteriophages infect an estimated 1023 to 1025 bacterial cells each second, many of
which carry physiologically relevant plasmids (eg, those encoding antibiotic resistance) …

High-throughput sequencing of transposon (Tn) libraries created within entire genomes
identifies and quantifies the contribution of individual genes and operons to the fitness of …

A brief on bacterial biofilms Page 1 news & views 360 nature genetics • volume 29 •
december 2001 It is now recognized that bacteria in nature and in many persistent …

ABSTRACT A temperate, type IV pilus-dependent, double-stranded DNA bacteriophage
named DMS3 was isolated from a clinical strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A clear …

Spontaneous plasmid transformation of Escherichia coli occurs on nutrient-containing agar
plates. E. coli has also been reported to use double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) as a carbon …