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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...