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

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

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 ...

A study by Georgia Tech researchers finds that bacteria maintain species cohesion through homologous recombination, a form of ...

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 ...

However, new findings from Konstantinidis and his team suggest otherwise, positing that bacteria not only form species but also maintain cohesion within these species through mechanisms that closely ...

Studies in the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori have at last identified the function of the bacterial MutS2 proteins, according to results reported in a recent Molecular Cell paper. The ...