Terpenoids play vital roles in plant ecology-from repelling pests to attracting pollinators-and are produced by terpene ...

Plants owe much of their scent, defense, and signaling power to terpenoids—a diverse group of chemicals made by terpene ...

Gene transfer on the fungal highway Researchers show how fungi can improve the genetic makeup of bacteria and their potential for the breakdown of harmful substances Date: December 14, 2016 Source ...

Researchers used new, long-read genetic sequencing technology to show that there are bacterial genomes within the genome of one species of fruit fly. This discovery seems to be the largest known ...

Gene transfer between coexisting bacteria occurred, shown as skinny arrows. However, random mutation independently produced a green and a red type bacterium suited for a different niche (thick arrow).

Bacterial Gene Transfer Gets Sexier Mycobacterium smegmatis can donate larger portions of its genome to other bacteria than previously thought, approaching the level of gene shuffling seen in sexual ...

The only explanation for this degree of bacteria-vertebrate HGT was that it occurred in the germ line, which suggested the worrying possibility that bacterial infection or exposure to genetically ...

"Our study shows that fungal hyphae not only provide soil bacteria with an excellent infrastructure, but also a potential hot spot for bacterial horizontal gene transfer. This previously unknown ...

New research shows that one fruit fly species contains whole genomes of a kind of bacteria, making this finding the largest bacteria-to-animal transfer of genetic material ever discovered. The new ...

Past studies of the bacteria E. coli revealed the microbes underwent a process known as horizontal gene transfer, in which one bacterium receives a bit of DNA from another bacterium before forming ...

However, most gene delivery systems do not allow efficient transfer of large (>100 kb) DNA fragments into mammalian cells, thus limiting their functional analysis.