Antibiotics have been used for the management of relatively few bacterial plant diseases
and are largely restricted to high-value fruit crops because of the expense involved …

Bacterial resistance toward broad‐spectrum antibiotics has become a major concern in
recent years. The threat posed by the infectious bacteria and the pace with which resistance …

Bacterial genomes evolve through mutations, rearrangements or horizontal gene transfer.
Besides the core genes encoding essential metabolic functions, bacterial genomes also …

Bacterial genomes are remarkably stable from one generation to the next but are plastic on
an evolutionary time scale, substantially shaped by horizontal gene transfer, genome …

Comparative whole-genome analyses have demonstrated that horizontal gene transfer
(HGT) provides a significant contribution to prokaryotic genome innovation. The evolution of …

To what extent is the tree of life the best representation of the evolutionary history of
microorganisms? Recent work has shown that, among sets of prokaryotic genomes in which …

Plasmids drive genomic diversity in bacteria via horizontal gene transfer [1, 2]; nevertheless,
explaining their survival in bacterial populations is challenging [3]. Theory predicts that …

Processes of molecular innovation require tinkering and shifting in the function of existing
genes. How this occurs in terms of molecular evolution at long evolutionary scales remains …

Conjugative plasmids are key agents of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) that accelerate
bacterial adaptation by vectoring ecologically important traits between strains and species …

The overuse and abuse of antibiotics have contributed to the global epidemic of antibiotic
resistance. Current evidence suggests that widespread dependency on antibiotics and …