Bacteria acquire novel DNA through horizontal gene transfer (HGT), a process that enables
an organism to rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions, provides a competitive …

Several new genomics technologies have become available that offer long-read sequencing
or long-range mapping with higher throughput and higher resolution analysis than ever …

Microbial communities might include distinct lineages of closely related organisms that
complicate metagenomic assembly and prevent the generation of complete metagenome …

The cow rumen is adapted for the breakdown of plant material into energy and nutrients, a
task largely performed by enzymes encoded by the rumen microbiome. Here we present …

ABSTRACT A global rise in antimicrobial resistance among pathogenic bacteria has proved
to be a major public health threat, with the rate of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections …

Although microbial communities are associated with human, environmental, plant, and
animal health, there exists no cost-effective method for precisely characterizing species and …

Bacterial DNA methylation occurs at diverse sequence contexts and plays important
functional roles in cellular defense and gene regulation. Existing methods for detecting DNA …

Infection of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA), carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), and extended-spectrum …

Chromosomes of eukaryotes adopt highly dynamic and complex hierarchical structures in
the nucleus. The three-dimensional (3D) organization of chromosomes profoundly affects …

Metagenomics has changed the face of virus discovery by enabling the accurate
identification of viral genome sequences without requiring isolation of the viruses. As a …