Plant–microbe interactions are important for both physiological and pathological processes.
Despite the significance of plant–microbe interactions, microbe–microbe interactions …

Antibiotic resistance encoded on plasmids is a pressing global health problem. Predicting
which plasmids spread in the long term remains very challenging, even though some key …

Plant microbiomes are pivotal for healthy plant physiological development. Microbes live in
complex co-association with plant hosts, and interactions within these microbial …

Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae causes liver abscess and potentially devastating
metastatic complications. The majority of Klebsiella-induced liver abscess are caused by the …

Conjugative plasmids promote the dissemination and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in
bacterial pathogens. However, plasmid acquisition can produce physiological alterations in …

Transcriptional heterogeneity in isogenic bacterial populations can play various roles in
bacterial evolution, but its detection remains technically challenging. Here, we use microbial …

Plasmids drive bacterial evolutionary innovation by transferring ecologically important
functions between lineages, but acquiring a plasmid often comes at a fitness cost to the host …

The ultraviolet (UV) component of sunlight can damage DNA. Although most solar UV is
absorbed by the ozone layer, wavelengths> 300 nm (UVA and UVB bands) can reach the …

Cargo-mobilizing mobile elements (CMEs) are genetic entities that faithfully transpose
diverse protein coding sequences. Although common in bacteria, we know little about …

Microorganisms harbor catabolic plasmids to tackle refractory organic pollutants, which is
crucial for bioremediation and ecosystem health. Understanding the impacts of plasmids on …