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Metagenomic assemblies tend to break around antibiotic resistance genes - BMC Genomics

Background Assembly of metagenomic samples can provide essential information about the mobility potential and taxonomic origin of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and inform interventions to prevent...

Complete genomes of Asgard archaea reveal diverse integrated and mobile genetic elements - out today in Genome Research from @luisvalentin.bsky.social@archaeal.bsky.social@valdeanda.bsky.socialgenome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

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Genomic and functional characterization of the Atlantic salmon gut microbiome in relation to nutrition and health

Nature Microbiology - Using shotgun metagenomics, cultivation and metabolic modelling, the authors construct the Salmon Microbial Genome Atlas as a resource for future studies on sustainable...

Our study on the (huge) variations in transformation rates is now out in OA! Key question: why are so many strains non-transformable if the many recent transitions to non-transformability seem deleterious? doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Intragenomic conflicts with plasmids and chromosomal mobile genetic elements drive the evolution of natural transformation within species

Bacterial species exhibit large variations in their transformation rates. This study of Legionella pneumophila and Acinetobacter baumannii shows that their transformation rates evolve by sudden quick ...

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Cell attachment and tail contraction of S. aureus phage phi812

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Intragenomic conflicts with plasmids and chromosomal mobile genetic elements drive the evolution of natural transformation within species (PLOS Biology) from @epcrocha.bsky.socialjournals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Great paper looking at phyologenetics+genetics of transformation

Now out in MGen! Daria Frolova's paper on measuring plasmid relatedness using rearrangement distances www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...#microsky