How do bacteria—harmless ones living in our bodies, or those that cause disease—organize their activities? A new study, ...

Antibiotics have natural functions, mostly involving cell-to-cell signaling networks. The anthropogenic production of antibiotics, and its release in the microbiosphere results in a disturbance of ...

Mycoplasmas are successful pathogens that cause debilitating diseases in humans and various animal hosts. Despite the exceptionally streamlined genomes, mycoplasmas have evolved specific mechanisms to ...

A tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses. Development version: 2.0 ...