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

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 ...

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

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