When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a ...

Chromosome segregation and site-specific recombination are critical processes in bacterial cell division and genetic stability. These mechanisms ensure that genetic material is accurately ...

In short, while bacteria may not have “sex lives” in the way humans do, their frequent DNA exchanges play a crucial role in ...

Bacterial and other microbes are thought to ... They found that a process called “homologous recombination” plays a major role in keeping microbial species together. Homologous recombination ...

Each bacterial colony, which derives from the DNA of a single sperm, is then genotyped. Pooled-sperm genotyping has the drawback that it is unable to create large-scale recombination maps and ...

They observed that recombination occurs frequently and randomly across the entire genome of microbes, and not just in a few specific regions. “This may be fundamentally different from sexual ...

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Md. have developed a new tool for editing and repairing bacterial DNA in vivo using *-mediated homologous recombination. Originally used with ...

This is a model of ecological differentiation in bacteria. Thin arrows represent recombination within or between ecologically associated populations. Thick colored arrows represent acquisition of ...