Genomic islands: tools of bacterial horizontal gene transfer and evolution

M Juhas, JR Van Der Meer, M Gaillard… - FEMS microbiology …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Bacterial genomes evolve through mutations, rearrangements or horizontal gene transfer.
Besides the core genes encoding essential metabolic functions, bacterial genomes also …

Ralstonia solanacearum, a widespread bacterial plant pathogen in the post‐genomic era

N Peeters, A Guidot, F Vailleau… - Molecular plant …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
R alstonia solanacearum is a soil‐borne bacterium causing the widespread disease known
as bacterial wilt. R alstonia solanacearum is also the causal agent of M oko disease of …

Cell-free DNA: a neglected source for antibiotic resistance genes spreading from WWTPs

Y Zhang, A Li, T Dai, F Li, H Xie, L Chen… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Cell-associated ARGs in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has been concerned,
however, cell-free ARGs in WWTPs was rarely studied. In this study, the abundances of four …

Ozone treatment of conditioned wastewater selects antibiotic resistance genes, opportunistic bacteria, and induce strong population shifts

J Alexander, G Knopp, A Dötsch, A Wieland… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
An ozone treatment system was investigated to analyze its impact on clinically relevant
antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs). A concentration of …

[HTML][HTML] Repertoire, unified nomenclature and evolution of the Type III effector gene set in the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex

N Peeters, S Carrère, M Anisimova, L Plener… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Background Ralstonia solanacearum is a soil-borne beta-proteobacterium that causes
bacterial wilt disease in many food crops and is a major problem for agriculture in …

[HTML][HTML] Reduction of antibiotic resistant bacteria during conventional and advanced wastewater treatment, and the disseminated loads released to the environment

T Jäger, N Hembach, C Elpers, A Wieland… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The occurrence of new chemical and microbiological contaminants in the aquatic
environment has become an issue of increasing environmental concern. Thus, wastewater …

Contrasting recombination patterns and demographic histories of the plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum inferred from MLSA

E Wicker, P Lefeuvre, JC de Cambiaire… - The ISME …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We used multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) on a worldwide collection of the plant
pathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum (Betaproteobacteria) to retrace its complex evolutionary …

Evolutionary implications of horizontal gene transfer

M Syvanen - Annual review of genetics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The flow of genes between different species represents a form of genetic variation whose
implications have not been fully appreciated. Here I examine some key findings on the …

Mutator genomes decay, despite sustained fitness gains, in a long-term experiment with bacteria

A Couce, LV Caudwell, C Feinauer… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the extreme variation among bacterial genomes remains an unsolved
challenge in evolutionary biology, despite long-standing debate about the relative …

Microbiological characterization of aquatic microbiomes targeting taxonomical marker genes and antibiotic resistance genes of opportunistic bacteria

J Alexander, A Bollmann, W Seitz, T Schwartz - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
The dissemination of medically relevant antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)(blaVIM-1, vanA,
ampC, ermB, and mecA) and opportunistic bacteria (Enterococcus faecium/faecalis …