PlasmidScope: a comprehensive plasmid database with rich annotations and online analytical tools

Y Li, X Feng, X Chen, S Yang, Z Zhao… - Nucleic Acids …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Plasmids are extrachromosomal genetic molecules that replicate independent of
chromosomes in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotic organisms. They contain diverse …

Implications of bacteria–bacteria interactions within the plant microbiota for plant health and productivity

GD Barone, Y Zhou, H Wang, S Xu, Z Ma… - Journal of Zhejiang …, 2024 - Springer
Crop production currently relies on the widespread use of agrochemicals to ensure food
security. This practice is considered unsustainable, yet has no viable alternative at present …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence of alternative stable states in gene exchange communities

J Hong, W Xue, T Wang - eLife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Microbial communities living in the same environment often display multiple alternative
stable states, each characterized by a unique composition of species. Understanding the …

植物微生物群落中细菌-细菌互作对植物健康和生产力的影响

周雅琦, 汪宏凯, 徐孙德, 马忠华… - 浙江大学学报(英文版)(B …, 2024 - jzusb.zjujournals.com
化学农药防治是当前农业生产中防治作物病虫害最主要的措施, 对粮食安全生产起到至关重要的
作用. 化学农药的不合理使用会导致有害生物抗药性和环境污染等问题, 因此利用有益农业 …

Community conservatism is widespread throughout microbial phyla and environments

L Malfertheiner, J Tackmann, JFM Rodrigues… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Evolution gives rise to various long-term phenomena, including Phylogenetic signal, which
describes the tendency of related biological taxa to resemble each other in morphology and …

Large scale capsid-mediated mobilisation of bacterial genomic DNA in the gut microbiome

T Borodovich, JS Wilson, P Bardy, M Smith, C Hill… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Here, we present a novel approach to study packaging and mobilisation of bacterial DNA in
complex microbial communities, such as the human gut microbiome, by viral or virus-like …

Emergence of alternative stable states in microbial communities undergoing horizontal gene transfer

J Hong, W Xue, T Wang - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Microbial communities living in the same environment often display alternative stable states,
each characterized by a unique composition of species. Understanding the origin and …

A Bayesian Approach for Parameterizing and Predicting Plasmid Conjugation Dynamics

S Kumsuwan, C Jaichuen, C Jatura, P Subsoontorn - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Population dynamic models that explain and predict the spread of conjugative plasmids are
pivotal for understanding microbial evolution and engineering microbiomes. However …