A research team has redefined microbial niches by determining which ... with genes coming and going during evolution. This allows them to integrate genetic information from other organisms through ...

The researchers said that the group’s latest paper provides new insights into the processes and drivers of bacterial evolution. “We know that microbial life has evolved in naturally occurring ...

The approach enables post-genomic functional assays to be carried out to understand the ecology and evolution of microbial consortia. It possible to reconstruct near-complete, and possibly ...

This allowed them to map the co-evolution of plasmids and E. coli strains back 300 years, illustrating that this is a highly conserved and useful method of genetic transfer. By unravelling the ...

Study: Early life microbial succession in the gut follows common patterns in humans across the globe. Image Credit: Corona Borealis Studio / Shutterstock In a recent study published in the journal ...