Copy number variants (CNVs) arise by homologous recombination (HR ... individual humans and are an underlying factor in human evolution and in many diseases, including mental illness ...

They focused on genes in the bacterium that interfere with ... or just phages. Throughout evolution, bacteria and phages have undergone an arms race in which phages infect bacteria, which in ...

baumannii strains can naturally acquire exogenous DNA through natural transformation and plasmids via conjugation, contributing to the acquisition of antibiotic resistance genes (Domingues ... role in ...

A study has shown that a dangerous game of "brinkmanship" between rival genes in mammals could help explain why many ...

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A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its ...

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.

An in-depth analysis of the genomes of apple species is giving Penn State biologists better methods for identifying genes ...

Moreover, the phylogenetic study of PRDM9 shows that this gene has been lost several times independently during evolution, possibly in relation to the site erosion phenomenon. All this raises the ...