Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the movement of genetic material from one organism to another. In this article, we will ...

When exposed to antibiotics, approximately one out of every 10 8 -10 9 bacteria develops resistance due to spontaneous ...

I just think the lesson is that DNA really gets around. —Nancy Moran, University of Texas at Austin If Li had been studying bacteria, finding this kind of lateral or horizontal gene transfer (HGT) ...

Subsequent studies questioned the possibility of HGT, offering alternate explanations for the presence of genes that resembled bacterial sequences, such as gene loss ... researchers have reported the ...

Critics of agricultural biotechnology have often been dismissed as modern-day Luddites. However, these critics have an understandable concern, based on a detail of the technology that has been ...

Experiments proved their hunch to be correct, revealing a breakthrough mechanism in horizontal gene transfer that the ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

Experiments proved their hunch to be correct, revealing a breakthrough mechanism in horizontal gene transfer that the scientific community was previously unaware of. Before anyone on the team ...

The cyanobacterium may have acquired an NTT protein from Chlamydia through horizontal gene transfer (gene exchange between ...

Symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer shape leaf beetle evolution 1mo W ith more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of ...