Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays an important role in the evolution of life on the Earth.
This view is supported by numerous occasions of HGT that are recorded in the genomes of …

Antibiotics are used in animal livestock production for therapeutic treatment of disease and
at subtherapeutic levels for growth promotion and improvement of feed efficiency. It is …

A new perspective on the topic of antibiotic resistance is beginning to emerge based on a
broader evolutionary and ecological understanding rather than from the traditional …

Background Because of its adaptability to sites polluted with toxic chemicals, the model soil
bacterium Pseudomonas putida is naturally endowed with a number of metabolic and stress …

Our concept of a stable genome is evolving to one in which genomes are plastic and
responsive to environmental changes. Growing evidence shows that a variety of …

Bacteria spend their lives buffeted by changing environmental conditions. To adapt to and
survive these stresses, bacteria have global response systems that result in sweeping …

Antibiotics can induce mutations that cause antibiotic resistance. Yet, despite their
importance, mechanisms of antibiotic-promoted mutagenesis remain elusive. We report that …

Pollution from ethylene glycol, and plastics containing this monomer, represent a significant
environmental problem. The investigation of its microbial metabolism therefore provides …

Genomic instability underlies many cancers and generates genetic variation that drives
cancer initiation, progression, and therapy resistance. In contrast with classical assumptions …

The ampicillin‐resistance transposon Tn3is the archetype (“Tn3” being synonymous with
“Tn1” or “Tn2”;(1)) of a large and widespread family of transposons with representatives in …