Bacteria need to be able to adapt to the changing and challenging environments in which they live to survive and multiply. One of the genetic processes by which they do this is transduction. In this ...

Transduction is the biological process by which DNA is transferred into a cell with the aid of a viral vector. This may take place naturally between bacterium via a bacteriophage in an example of ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is essential for genome evolution across the tree of life and has an important role in archaeal speciation, adaptation, and maintenance of diversity. Many of the ...

The problem of antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) pollution in the environment has become one of the most severe public health ...