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

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

New research shows bacteria form distinct species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange via homologous recombination.

Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to their unique genetic exchange mechanisms ... They found that a process called "homologous recombination" plays a major role in keeping microbial ...

A study by Georgia Tech researchers finds that bacteria maintain species cohesion through homologous recombination, a form of frequent and random DNA exchange. This process keeps microbial species ...

Each bacterial colony, which derives from the ... given that the total amount of genetic recombination is related to the number of chromosome arms and that there is likely to be selection against ...

However, new findings from Konstantinidis and his team suggest otherwise, positing that bacteria not only form species but also maintain cohesion within these species through mechanisms that closely ...

The second possibility is that Covid has now settled into a rut, which will see it become progressively milder until it ultimately becomes akin to the common cold. Chin-Hong says that this would make ...