The study reveals that environmental stressors do not merely kill bacteria; they can also prime surviving cells to take up ...

In a recent study published in Cell, researchers used a multi-omics approach to profile the gut microbiomes and metabolomes of mothers and infants to determine the vertical and horizontal transmission ...

The movement or acquisition of genetic material between organisms that is not the result of vertical inheritance (reproduction) is called horizontal (or lateral) gene transfer. Horizontal gene ...

Viruses living on plastic surfaces may help transfer antibiotic resistance genes among microbes in the environment.

When the human genome was first published, the suggestion that it contained bacterial genes was controversial. Subsequent studies questioned the possibility of HGT, offering alternate explanations for ...

A new study has shown that virus-like transposons, called Mavericks, are responsible for horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in nematodes. Researchers led by Alejandro Burga at the Austrian Academy of ...

Recent research highlights the significant role of viruses on plastic surfaces in spreading antibiotic resistance, urging for ...

Following the Indore water contamination tragedy, concerns over antibiotic-resistant E. coli are rising. Discover the key ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the transfer of genetic material between distinct species, a process that plays a major role in the evolution of a genome. There is an increasing body of evidence for ...