From protists to humans, all animals and plants are inhabited by microbial organisms. There
is an increasing appreciation that these resident microbes influence the fitness of their plant …

Highlights•Natural transformation mediates the spread of antibiotic resistance
genes.•Natural transformation can aid gene transfer between unrelated taxa.•Natural …

The dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest challenges faced
by mankind in the public health domains. It is currently favored by a lack of confinement …

Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic and increasingly multi-drug resistant human
pathogen rated as a critical priority one pathogen for the development of new antibiotics by …

Abstract Short‐Patch Double Illegitimate Recombination (SPDIR) has been recently
identified as a rare mutation mechanism. During SPDIR, ectopic DNA single‐strands anneal …

The spread of antibiotic resistance within and between different bacterial populations is a
major health problem on a global scale. The identification of genetic transformation in …

High-throughput methods for DNA sequencing have cataloged the composition of
thousands of bacterial genomes, including those of many soil bacteria. Regardless of the …

Transposons are genetic elements that change their intracellular genomic position by
transposition and are spread horizontally between bacteria when located on plasmids. It …

High-throughput (genomics and metagenomics) methods for DNA sequencing have now
cataloged the composition of thousands of bacterial genomes, including those of many soil …

Our ability to engineer and domesticate microbes to give them useful properties promises
grand rewards in the energy, agriculture, chemical and health industries. Yet, synthetic …